Xandros, today announced the release of the Xandros
Desktop Operating System (OS) PowerTerm Edition to provide secure access to mission critical applications running on legacy enterprise systems.By bundling Ericom’s PowerTerm® InterConnect for Linux with the Xandros Desktop OS Business Edition, Linux desktop users can now connect to a wide range of applications running on IBM Mainframe, IBM AS/400,
OpenVMS, Unix, Linux, Tandem, Data General, HP-3000, and other enterprise platforms.
“When enterprises migrate to Linux, one of the challenges they face is the need to access legacy applications from Linux desktops. Now, with the Xandros Desktop OS PowerTerm Edition, an immediate and cost effective solution is available,” said Eran Heyman, Ericom founder and
CEO. “Together with Xandros, Ericom’s PowerTerm InterConnect for Linux provides enterprises with immediate connectivity to mission critical legacy applications residing on a wide range of hosts. Additionally, for
enterprises seeking a cost-effective solution, the Xandros Desktop OS PowerTerm Edition requires minimal installation, support and retraining.”
“With over seventy percent of enterprise data still residing on IBM mainframes and other legacy systems, the Xandros Desktop OS PowerTerm Edition is the right solution for Fortune 500 enterprises seeking to migrate their system access to the same low-cost, stable, virus-free
Linux environment that home users and small businesses enjoy” said Dr. Frederick H. Berenstein, Xandros Chairman and CTO. “Migrating to Linux is a no-brainer for all levels of computing now that we have PowerTerm InterConnect to fill the gap.”
Familiar look and feel
The familiar graphical environment of the Xandros Desktop OS PowerTerm Edition, with its clean, well-structured menus, invites users to get right to work in either mainframe applications or local desktop programs. Secure SSH and SSL access is provided to a wide range of legacy hosts supporting over 30 types of terminal emulation. The bundled StarOffice suite provides compatibility with Microsoft features and files, while the Xandros File Manager makes it easy to drag and drop files, manage folders and archives, access local partitions, share
network resources, set up printers, and perform numerous other tasks. For full product details please see here.
Volume Pricing and Discounts Available
The Xandros Desktop OS PowerTerm Edition can be ordered directly from Xandros at www.xandros.com/shopping at a recommended retail price of $149 per seat. For volume pricing as well as discounts for existing Xandros users, please contact Xandros sales.
Lycoris has had an interconnect based product out for ages now… Xandros are a bit late to the starting line arent they?
PowerTerm for Windows is one of the buggiest pieces of crap I have -ever- seen. We keep every version ever that we paid for around because with hundreds of desktops, well, we encounter enough gotchas to up and downgrade. Sad.
“Lycoris has had an interconnect based product out for ages now… Xandros are a bit late to the starting line arent they?”
With this many damn distro’s floating around these days; one of them has probably had everything including the typhoid by now.
Seriously Xandros probably will do much better with this than you might imagine. They have done very well where many others have fallen. I have high hopes for Xandros as a company.
Lycoris has had an interconnect based product out for ages now… Xandros are a bit late to the starting line arent they?
Ummm, hasn’t Lycoris been a company for many more years than Xandros?
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Don’t they like other rpm-based distro suffer from dependency hell syndrome too? Wonder if these days the packaging tools in rpm distros affords the option of source package rebuilds, optimization and compilation like APT does
Last year were sold more “legacy” mainframes than ever before … so stop this MS started naming FUD campaign against what is not MS “technology”.
Don’t they like other rpm-based distro suffer from dependency hell syndrome too
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No
Redhat uses up2date and yum, apt-get is available
mandrake uses urpmi
suse uses yast
connectiva uses apt-get and so on.
dependency hell is not part of any rpm distro. the problems comes from not having a big repository like debian
And if x3270 is not good enough, then why use a full installed client where there are lots of great java applets solutions from many emulation vendors.
My company runs about 60 copies of the windows copy of powerterm. We started with 30 or so copies about 4 years ago and have had not problems yet. I have been watching this for a while, for awhile and I think ericom(the powerterm vender) was sellimg a version of Xandros with powerterm built it. I guess that when they stopped selling it the Xandros people mad there own deal.
They might be late to the race, but look at the price differnce…Xandros $149…Lycoris $229!
@Chicoon: I agree with you 100%. Mainframes or MidRange computers aren’t legacy.
They might not be flashy or trendy, but they get the job done and that’s what counts. Just because they don’t don’t have a point can click interface doesn’t make them legacy. If that was the case, then a Unix box without X would be legacy.
We have an iSeries at work and it does what we need it to do. Personally, I like the green screen. It’s fast, easy to navigate (for me) and light weight. Our iSeries box handles E.D.I. via VAR’s and AS/2, handles 50+ RF barcode scanners, 50+ interactive users, batch jobs and more. All this on a little 810 box.
We have a home grown ERP system all done in RPG. It handles inventory, sales, etc. Pretty much everything. All using the native D2/400 of course.
I’ve never learned to program RPG because I hate the fixed form format, but I have to admit RPG is very good at what it does. Our iSeries also has Apache running on it. We’ve been playing around with some web facing tools. My only gripe is that IBM development tools (on MS Windows) are horrid and alot of times painfully slow.
Oh, back to PowerTerm… We use the PowerTerm host-to-web in our enviroment so that our outside reps can access the iSeries green screen over the web. It’s basically a Java app. Honestly, I think there are better apps our there than this. I’ve seen better, but PowerTerm is more cost effective. It does the job. The drawbacks though, is that the clients need a JVM and we all know how Microsoft likes to make life hard for Java on MS Windows. To be honest, I don’t like Sun’s JVM either. As bad as this may sound, I prefer MS JVM.
I did try to install IBM’s iSeries Access on a box running Fedora Core 2, but I wasn’t able to get it working. I would try to start it and it would core dump. I didn’t even bother trying to get it to work after that. I it was hard enough for me to even install RedHat. Not hard in the sense that it was difficult, but in the sense that as a BSD user I didn’t like the fact that I had to use Linux. It’s like forcing a Ford fanatic to drive a Chevy. Ewwwww.
Maybe one day, I’ll give IBM iSeries Access for Linux another try. Maybe I can make it work on my Gentoo box I’ve been playing with. I have to admit, I’ve sort of been liking Gentoo. I feel more at home with it.
Anyway, if you need access to a iSeries (AS/400) box and you want something light weight you might want to look up Mochasoft. That’s another light weight green screen application we use. It does the job.
Hey, that’s funny!
Their desktop environment is so great, that they make
their PDF brochures on a Mac…