topic Re: X-emulator in Operating System - HP-UX

X-emulator

Pieter_5 — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:40:10 GMT

I looking for several X-emulators to use within our production-environment. Several users need to connect to our production-servers with a pc and use a small graphical application on our HP-UX server. They use X-vision at the moment. We are looking for a better and (above all) cheaper alternatives. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Re: X-emulator

Robert-Jan Goossens — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:43:54 GMT

Hi,

Cheap !

http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

I use Reflection, but it is not cheap.

Re: X-emulator

Stefan Farrelly — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:46:05 GMT

We use Hummingbird Exceed - and find it excellent. Much better than Reflections we used to use. I see Exceed v8 only costs US$160 on amazon.com, and on ebay.com its less than $100, and older version (were using v7) are even cheaper!

Re: X-emulator

Michael Elleby III_1 — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:47:39 GMT

Andre-

The two more dominant X-emulation software applications are Exceed and Reflection X..

I believe that Reflection is the more inexpensive, but don't quote me on that..

I've found that the easiest one to use would be Reflection, as its Wizards are more easily accessible, allowing you to create client files for access to different machines, etc..

Mike-

Re: X-emulator

Alzhy — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:47:48 GMT

Don't know the price(s), but your commercial options can include:

- HCL eXceed
- KEA
- XonNET

As mentioned earlier, Cygwin is your *free* choice...

Another option is.. why not run Linux instead on their desktops (or run Vmware so they can run both Windows and Linux)

;^)

Re: X-emulator

Ken Hubnik_2 — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:48:34 GMT

I agree with Stephen. Previous job I used Xvision and my new job we use Exceed. Exceed is a much better product.

Re: X-emulator

Zigor Buruaga — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:53:01 GMT

Hi,

We use Hummingbird Exceed v6.0.2 and is a very good product ( don??t know the cost ... I guess is cheap ).

Regards,
Zigor

Re: X-emulator

harry d brown jr — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:57:49 GMT

We used to be standardized on reflections, but I got that changed a few years back to Exceed (hummingbird), which I find excellent!

live free or die
harry

Re: X-emulator

generic_1 — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:25:57 GMT

You might be able to use VNC which is free software. It also runs on HPUX as well as Windows. There are many varients of this tool available.
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
You can tunnel this through SSH as well.

Re: X-emulator

Shannon Petry — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:48:21 GMT

As for price between Exceed and Reflections, I find it amazing people dont shop competatively.

Get a quote on Exceed. Call WRQ software (makers of Reflections). They will match or beat the quote.

You shop this way for a car, truck, house, motorcycle, etc... Why is software any different?

Regards,
Shannon

ps. I agree, cygwin and vnc are free, and work very well. Just have to make up your own support methods is all.

Re: X-emulator

Rick Beldin — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:37:36 GMT

Another alternative might be Xvnc.

You could run a VNC server on the HP-UX server and then connect to it with thin-clients on the PC. One benefit would be that if uptime on the HP-UX is greater than PC, the app would keep running. Another would be that multiple people could view the same app. PCs could disconnect at will and the app would continue running. Network throughput would be decreased because RFB protocol is lighter-weight than X protocol.

And it should fit your budget - free...

http://realvnc.com/

Re: X-emulator

Alexander M. Ermes — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:20:33 GMT

Hi there.
We work with ExCeed from Hummingbird for soem years thru several versions and OS versions on the client.
ExCeed creates it's own Xserver on the client machine to connect to the HP-UX 'client'.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

Re: X-emulator

patrick_119 — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:36:14 GMT

Hi,

we are looking for an economical X-Emulator with SSH. We have disabled telnet and ftp and want to tunnel X11 traffic thru ssh.

Any ideas out there. Reflection is very expensive approx $ 700 per user with ssh.

Thanks in advance,

Patrick