Hi Bob,
<plug>
GUI3000 supports up to 256 clients, and does not impact on the user license.
Check it out at www.gui3000.com
</plug>

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"Lars Appel" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> A legal way to use HP 3000 software without having to increase
> the user license would be moving to client-server or web based
> applications/front-ends. TCP connections that talk ODBC, JDBC,
> http, or other protocols (even custom ones) do not seem to count
> against the normal MPE/iX user license.
>
> You might write new GUI or web front-ends from scratch (using
> Java would be a cheap and platform independent approach; also
> see my web pages for a couple of examples with source code)...
>
> or you might try one of the available 3rd party tools that
> evolve VPLUS applications to GUI clients or web front-ends...
>
> Lars.