On Friday 11 May 2001 00:46, you wrote:
> On Friday 11 May 2001 08:13, you wrote:
> > Distro will be out very soon (less than one month), and I'm curious to
> > hear answer to one question from you and other raders of this list:
> > money.
> >
> > That is, what would you (or your customers) like to get from us (related
> > to MandrakeSecurity), and how much are you willing to pay for it?
>
> That could be a tough one (I'm a cheap bastard with a private/just me net).
> I'm not sure what's planed but I think you need business/corporate
> customers who subscribe to auto update, i.e. the Astaro firewall can be
> setup for auto check/update (time based) progies, virus defs etc. Something
> like this is definitely a value added service and something worth paying
> for when what's behind the firewall is important (the rest of us can
> manually
> check/download/update). Perhaps a built in support line/page, only active
> when someone has a subscription.To reach that customer base you will also
> need features like VPN, email virus scanner, etc.
Not to mention:
DMZ,
functional setup with multiple ethernet cards (the same model and different
manufactures).
Compare the competition, look what a GNAT-BOX offers for $995. Maybe not the
best example, but.
I'm not even close to having a functional firewall with the configuration I
have. (5x86 clone, 3 eth's, 2.5 gb, 63M, etc.) Installation works except
for the network configuration. But where can I find some documentation?
Not disappointed, guess I was expecting more from Mandrake.
As for pricing: IMHO from what I seen, using the macmillian model; I would
be willing to pay somewhere in the range of the mid-level package.
Thanks for reading,
.dn
