Re: Firewalls Compared

[Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr <gwen () reptiles org>]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> [1.]  I once missed the perfect chance for a rejoinder when a certain
> firewall developer said "I've written things which scale well with
> authentication, so I'm basing this on my experience."  I should have
> replied "I tried to deploy your product with authentication on, and it
> scaled not one bit, so I'm questioning your information based on my
> experience."

This reminds me of a certain firewall vendor, whose sales pitch included
a stress on "We have 70% of the market share in firewalls".

We'd gotten down to technical details, and the sales guy was curious
about the platform that we had in mind [solaris, as it happens], and
said, rather relieved, "Oh, that's good!".

I asked why, and he proceeded to explain that Microsoft just wasn't a
good base for a firewall.  When I asked him how a company with that much
market share could -possibly- be a bad choice, there was a long, awkward
silence...

cheers!
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