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I believe that the WRQ site has reviews of this product, and our own Shawn
Gordon wrote a review of it last year.

I have eval'ed v2 of the product (I believe that they are now on v4), and
recommended it for certain specific applications here. For users that live
in their emulator sessions 8 - 5, I'm not sure that I see an advantage to
it. But if you have users who work in fits and spurts, or can have a
fluctuating number of users, or even inconsistency in the number of seats or
machines, or Operating Systems on your clients, this product has some
interesting features.

I was not fully able to evaluate how it works under Linux when I did the
eval, but presumably, if the Linux user is using a GUI and Netscape within
that GUI, it ought to be able to run in Netscape's JVM. I likewise assume
that this is an option for Mac users. Likewise, if employees "hotel", or may
be using any given workstation or any given laptop, the ability to download
the applet on demand (or to configure things on the host so the applet is
more persistent and does not require regular download) could simplify
things.

Both Reflection and Reflection on the Web offer centralized administration.
The latter definitely does offer "metering" (I have no idea about the
former), so you can control how many seats can be in use at once, and in
theory save on your total cost by having fewer concurrent seats than total
possible users.

And when I tried it, I did deploy it from our 3000 running Apache, with no
problems. I even used SAMBA to get the files there to begin with.

As for html pages that automatically log on to your 3000, that's an
interesting question. Since web pages are stateless, it would seem that they
would log right back off? If you are looking for some kind of single command
execution, I understand that you can write a shell script that Apache can
run from its cgi directory. What exactly do you have in mind?

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com