Try www.ericom.com I worked with most products in the market, they are
second best only to IBMs PCOM and only because they don't support console
streams.

Itschak

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Schwarz, Barry A <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
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