Thawte was not always verisign and they seem to have retained a level of 'non-verisign-ness' that makes it non-painful to work with them. My last thawte cert was purchased in sept this year. It was as smooth and painless as I could wish for...nothing like the painful gyrations described on this list when trying to get an Entrust cert. The don't buy a product from them because they are affilliated with so-n-so seems strange to me. I won't buy domains from Verisign because their customer service sucks, their pricing sucks and their business practices suck. But somewhere along they way, they bought a company that didn't have those problems and they haven't messed it up yet...i will still buy from cert until their service goes to hell (hoping that it won't) or there is a better priced option that has reasonable support available. At this point, reasonable support seems to be defined as...do they have any support at all? Great! I'll buy!
-bryanw p.s. Somewhere along the way I may have lost track of the point I was trying to make...but I certainly feel better now anyway ;) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Spy OpenSRS Mail Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Thawte vrs Entrust Just my humble opinion ...I think Mark J. was right to make a stink, but I think Entrust is still a good option. We used them and received a lot of support when we had trouble installing their cert on a Cobalt RaQ server. Basically because the RaQ is strange. In addition if you are not in a hurry the process is not that bad. Next up, I wouldn't do business with Thawte because they are VeriSign. I'd rather not put money in their pocket if I don't have to. Just my 2 cents. I'd give you 4 but it would be wasted on some of the Yahoo's here. :) Peace and Love Incorporated, Lars SpyProductions Achieve Web Success http://www.spyproductions.com vox: 302.369.3060 fax: 302.369.6040 -----------------------------------
