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Wed Jun 30 09:45:05 2004 Your opinion wanted
Posted by Tony Lawrence
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A current provider of Windows-based SSH and Telnet terminal emulation software is seeking market feedback. The project being considered involves re-engineering the terminal emulation software to be deployed via web server to eliminate the need for client installs/updates and to allow for platform independence. The web server technology is then deployed by the customer not a 3rd party ASP. Comments or suggestions are welcomed.
(Yes, they do Sco and Linux emulation. They have asked that I not reveal their name, but they would like feedback: is the market going to last, is platform independence important to you, etc.)
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I know I would be interested. I think anything web based is a plus - only one piece of software to worry about on the client side.
- Bruce Garlock
I'd be willing to give such a thing a go.
--BigDumbDinosaur
My question is "do enough people need a terminal emulator anymore?". On the one hand, Linux use is increasing, but even there I see more people using X only, sometimes vnc for remote access, but less and less command line. Of course I personally use command line tools every single day, but I wonder how many other people do?
--TonyLawrence
I operate all the systems (UNIX, that is) under my control from the shell prompt. I can't recall the last time I used a GUI in UNIX. So, to answer the question, I need a terminal emulator.
--BigDumbDinosaur
I use a Gui on my Linux box constantly, but I use command line at the same time. They are both just tools to me, and I just use whatever seems most suitable for what I want to do. A gui is easy to use, but you can't do scripting with it (or scripting at least is a huge pain).
Trouble I see is you have some stiff compitition. Putty.exe is free and is a very good terminal emulator for SSH, you have to download it, but the executable runs without no need for a "install".
Situations I see it most usefull in is probably educational setups were people are learning howto use webservers and such and need command line access to the servers. Another one I see is usefull for admins that are constantly on the move, if public terminals get popular then this would probably work out because then they could jump onto any machine with internet access and do their administrating.
Don't know much beyond that.
--Drag
Sounds like jAnita (www.april.se/english/janita.asp)
-dhh
Fri Jun 24 12:06:39 2011: TonyLawrence
I was thinking about this earlier today.
Most terminal users today are probably using it to access routers and smart switches - and even a lot of that is browser based today.
I still use terminal emulation every day, but 99.99% requires nothing more than a basic VT100 emulation - I don't need function keys and could probably get by with a very bad emulator.
Once in a great while (less and less frequently) I need to access a SCO box. Even there, basic VT100 is usually enough for the kinds of things I need to do. Rarely I need to get into their "custom" or whatever, but even there, I can struggle through with imperfect emulation.
The market for emulators is probably near dead.
Fri Jun 24 20:36:48 2011: BigDumbDinosaur
http://bcstechnology.net
Funny you mention that. I just sold a Dynacomm license a few weeks ago. It's a client with all their vertical software running on Thoroughbred Dictionary-IV on a SCO 5.0.7 box that we shipped some eight years ago. :)
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