Neither product is better, you have to weigh an organization's decision on
the answers to the following pertinent questions?
1. Will this vendor be in a business a year from now??
2. Will they be acquired by some other vendor in a year from now and
completely screw up customer support?
3. Will the support center lines accidently get switched to a Surf 'N' Bait
shop for a day and no one notices the difference
in the expertise level of technical support?
4. Will the sales (Snake) person be there in 30 days after you receive the
product
5. Will the lead developer get snookered to go work for Microsoft
6. Will the CEO/COO/CTO flake out and invest all his/her money into Alien
Research or Nano Technology
7. Will the company's internal email system be as good as the smtpd daemon
they put in their product
8. Will the vendor's patch fixes actually work as stated?
9. Will the vendor drop all UNIX operating system support and bank everyone
will switch to Microsoft eventually anyways?
10. Will the license key issue actually work??
/cheers
/mark
At 01:07 AM 10/12/00 +0800, Daniel Baldoni wrote:
>G'day folks,
>
>Two questions which keep cropping up on the list are:
>
> Which firewall product is best?
> Which is better - A or B?
>
>What do people think about setting up a members' opinion page listing the
>products they've used? (I'd be willing to host it on my site - but I should
>point out that it's at the end of a slow link.)
>
>If properly maintained, it could be an invaluable resource containing lists
>of gotchas for various products and/or versions of products, interoperability
>issues, etc. I imagine it to be a "place" where list members can submit
>their opinions (no commercial input from the "big boys") - with "majority
>rules" (to prevent "invisible commercial input").
>
>If there is already such a resource, my most humble apologies for adding to
>the signal:noise ratio.
>
>Let me know what you think... Ciao.
>
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