Terminal emulation: Cashing in on the green screen

The death of the terminal emulation market has been greatly exaggerated.

If ever there was a good example of just how out of touch the pundits are with reality it is the burgeoning terminal emulation market. Rumours of its death abound with monotonous regularity; in the real world it is the Terminator who is out of a job at both the traditional terminal emulation and the newer thin-client markets.

Where Arnie is flexing his muscles is to terminate all those thick clients which the major consultancies have been pushing over the past decade.

The real problem with terminal emulation is its image. As Allan Jones, vice-president international at NetMange, points out: "Unless you can put an 'e' in front of it, terminal emulation just isn't sexy.

"Two big things in its favour are that it's very easy to install and has a very strong return on investment (RoI). We are finding plenty of sites which want to replace their fat desktops with thin clients, especially Web to host," he adds.

Source: ComputerWeekly
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