I'll add a "second that" to recommend jollygiant's QWS3270. or QWS3270 Secure. (The secure version supports SSL/TLS, and may be turned on/off on a per-host basis)
My experience with them has been nothing less than GREAT! I've made many suggestions to improve the product over the years and (almost) all have been implemented. The cost is a fraction of what you're quoting here, even if you buy individual licenses. It supports RFC1572 which IBM use for their "express login" if that's important to you. QWS3270 is my emulator of choice. I have my own license, and take it with me when I work at client sites, if they don't have it already. Donald Russell On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:30 AM, 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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
