>Ask your vendor to explain why every Elron firewall on the planet
>ground to a halt about four months ago because _all_ the license
>keys were generated incorrectly and all expired on the same day.
>Ask them what are they doing to make sure that doesn't happen
>again. Ask about the company's quality control practises.
I know the problem that you're talking about, but your description is not
very accurate at all. This happened around the beginning of the year, and
the licenses didn't expire, the firewall had a built in drop-dead date (I
think it was January 1 of this year). It didn't affect your firewall if you
had installed it and licensed before this date, only if you installed and
licensed it after this date. When I called their tech support because I
couldn't license it, I was given the choice of an immediate workaround of
changing the date on the system, licensing the software, changing the date
back, or an updated version (2.5c) that was released within a couple of days
of this problem being reported. It was a minor annoyance, and one which
their tech support addressed immediately and professionally.
>Ask questions about scaleability, functionality, flexibility,
>time in the market-place, installed base, and how long the company
>is going to last in the market-place.
I have their firewall, with NAT, VPN, etc, in use with a few hundred users,
and haven't had any problems at all with performance. It's been very
stable, easily configurable (and their tech support has been top-notch
whenever I have had any problems or questions), and it seems to be a solid
product that gives plenty of bang for the buck.
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