On Wed, 19 Apr 1995 09:49:43 EST Debbie Blumenthal said:
>I've heard from a number of people (thank you!) on this topic.
>But... I seem to be hearing more from the ones who chose Minisoft and
>the overwhelming reason seems to be price.
>
>Did anyone compare (however slightly) then go with Reflection?  Why?
>How do you feel about it now?
 
When we compared (MiniSoft, Reflection, and Business Session) the Win92
program wasn't very robust.  Well, it was quite ugly on anything but a
standard 640x480 display.  This no doubt has improved.  The primary
problem with MiniSoft was a lack of good scripting and host control.
With Reflection we can write nearly idiot-proof scripts that save a lot
of calls to the help desk.  Minisoft may be fine to use as a terminal,
but we were after a little more.  Session is somewhere in the middle.
 
Our biggest gripe with Reflection was a lack of standard networking, you
had to buy more stuff to get it to work.  This is still true of NS/VT,
but the current versions of Reflection will to Telnet and FTP "out of the
box" using standard Winsock (in Windows) or MacTCP (on Macs).
 
[\] Jeff Kell, [log in to unmask]