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From: "Edward Jaffe" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: 3270 emulator cost
Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
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?
EVERYONE with a reasonably current copy of PCOMM has experience with this
package. It's just PCOMM, packaged with Host on Demand. (Read about it on
IBM's web site.)
I agree, the price is ridiculous. But, you should be able to buy just one
copy, deploy HOD on Linux, WIndows, or z/OS, and get 95% of PCOMM
facilities for almost free.
I must take issue with my good friend Edward Jaffe over his recommendation
of HOD. The HOD installs I've used are just abysmal. No keyboard mapping,
bad highlighting and 3270 extended stream support, screwy fonts, no IND$FILE
support, just to name a few. I recommend Tom Brennan's Vista. At $30 a
seat for a perpetual license, you can't get a better TN3270 emulator. Not
only is it cheap, it's way better than PCOMM, Extra, RUMBA, etc. Check it
out at www.tombrennansoftware.com.
Regards,
Tom Conley
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