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For complete list of Exceed Connectivity Suite 2006 components see Hummingbird Connectivity 2006 Suite
Hummingbird component |
Estimated number of users (out of 389) | Free analog | Comment |
| Hummingbird neighborhood | 70% | none |
This component provides convenient access to the servers with which the user works frequently; it's not the core functionality but is very important for nontechnical users. |
| HostExplorer VT | 60% | Teraterm, Putty |
Teraterm has generally superior functionality; some people prefer Putty which is a preinstalled application |
| Hummingbird FTP | 20% | ??? |
WS-FTP is similar but cheaper commercial applications and costs approximately 18 euros ($30) per seat. One time licensing cost for 20% of users, assuming $30 per user is approximately $2500. For all users it will be ~$12K |
| Exceed X11 | 60% | Cygwin |
Cygwin works well when exporting display from remote servers used by Unix group. But devil is in details, especially for DCS systems (see Corey Clingo letter); Open question is how to emulate the way the DCS users launch those applications (usually via rexec functionality of Exceed Xstart). See Xstart/Session section below... I would take special measures to preserve good will on the part of this category of users
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| Exceed XDMCP | unclear; at least one | ??? |
Current version of Cygwin has problem supporting XDMCP (hang keyboard) |
| Exceed Xstart/Xsession | 60% | custom bash scripts ??? |
Cygwin works within a separate emulation layer provided by cygwin1.dll so providing icons for applications requires creation of special bash scripts which need to be manually associated with icons, manually created for each and every server. |
| NFS Support | unclear | VMWare player |
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