John,
thanks for the comments. Hearing from people that have used it makes a difference. I also received a reply from someone at the company. I didn't mention it but the almost unusable help file was another reason. I am going to contact them and see if I can get the fixed version and take another look at it.

One question. We have to send a lot of updates over the internet these days. What would you estimate the total size in K Bytes it would add to my system.

Thanks again,
John.


>I never tested the demo, the price was reasonable so I went ahead and bought the software. I have not seen any evidence of it calling home. The only problem I had was the help files were damaged. But, I was able to contact them and they sent me a shortcut which I used to download new copies. The user documentation could be better, but between the help files and the samples I was able to figure out how to use it. With the .Net SDK I was then able to use it to talk to the Cardreaders using a serial protocal over TCP. Because of this I ended up with a very simple to read solution that worked quite well.
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