Re: Citrix

[Pat Barber <MBOCEANSIDE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Berendt wrote:
> 
> When you mention the 400 part, were you talking about a product that ran
> on the Citrix server, or, were you talking about the 5250 option available
> on the Netstation itself?  Or running the netstation 5250 part in
> conjunction with Citrix?  Because we've been running the 5250 part since
> the netstations were in beta.  There are pros and cons.  Pro is that the

Like I said earlier, I assume this is the same product... It was called
WinCenter Pro and I was under the impression it was written by Citrix...

The problems we had were when the customer wanted to run pc apps. and
400
emulation at the same time on the same netstation... You could run 400
emulation just fine... that came loaded on netstation & 400. The problem
was the ability to switch back and forth between 400 & PC server.. We 
had installed ethernet on 400 and put a brand new IBM server just for
WinCenter/Citrix(?) that would provide certain users with pc apps. and
400 emulation... IF you ran just emulation.. it went well(most of time)

If they logged on to pc server and then tried to log off and log on 400
bad things began to happen.... TOOOOOO many layers of software out there
bouncing into each other....  

When you mix NT,,Networkstation software,,OS/400,,Wincenter Pro....
things really got interesting....

I thought(still do) that the network station had a LOT of promise,,,
but IBM dropped their end so hard, it ended up being a flop... Some
folks have invested a TON in this product and my heart goes out to
them..

It cost my customer around 12K for a very expensive lesson and it
cost me a lot of bad press..
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