-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: 3270 emulator cost
As part of a replacement for a 12 year old system at a customer site in Japan, we will be replacing PCs running Windows 95 and IBM's PCOMM 3270 emulator with new PCs running Vista (don't bother) and a PCOMM replacement from IBM called Host Access Client Package. This new package comes with two pretty hefty price tags: approximately $1,000 purchase price per PC and approximately $250 per PC per year license fees. We will have 40 PCs. I can live with the $40K one time purchase cost even though I think it is pretty high but it seems absurd that the $10K license fees are 1/4 of the purchase price. In my experience, this is not the type of package that gets updated very often (actually I've never seen a 3270 emulator update). Does anyone have any experience with this Host Access Client Package? Are the fees comparable in other countries? Do other packages (Extra, Rumba, etc) charge annual fees? I would love to use one of the 3270 emulation products frequently mentioned here but I'm going to need ammunition to overcome the political inertia. <SNIP> QWS3270 (Jolly Giant) does have annual maint fees. And they do put out some maint yearly. I'm *guessing* that for 40 seats, Jolly Giant would be in the neighborhood of US$600 (initial) if not less for a site license and annual maint after that less than $100. So if the parties concerned aren't math challenged... Regards, Steve Thompson -- Opinions expressed by this poster may not be those of poster's employer. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
