Re: Businesslink

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <art@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>At 09:23 AM 7/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Has anyone ever heard of Businesslink:
>>
>>www.businesslink.com
>>
>>they have a 70k java applet and server software for the as/400 which
>>provides 5250 emulation, printing, and file downloads.
>>
>>Does anyone have any experience with this product?


I have never used the Java applet part, but their other product, which is
twinax attached and contains internal modems for direct dial up is
excellent.  You provide a diskette to the people who wish to dial in, and
they get dialed in.  Best part is, if you are on maintenance with Business
Link, you provide their 800 tech support number along with the diskette and
they handle getting your customers or salesman or whoever setup and dial in.
The only thing that we did was create the userid before sending out the
diskette.

We have never had a problem connecting any customers, including ones still
using PC AT's with 2400 baud modems.

Now, why wouldn't I use them?  They license on a per user basis, and they
sell licenses at least 5 at a time.  First of all, I HATE per user
licensing.  Every time my customer wanted someone else to dial in, we had to
make sure we had enough, if not, send in $2000 for a 5 user license.

Once I buy a product like that, I would like to forget about Business Link.
It works so well, I could forget about them, except I always have to buy
licenses.


Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Parlin, NJ 08859



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