The Biggest advantage to useing commercial products is that you will get
tech. support at least for some time anyway. Open Source products don't come
with tech. support my nature, but on the flip side, you can always get help
on most any open source product from mailing lists like this one. The
biggest advantage is on the side of open source, which is cost. From my
experance the open source stuff usually works better, mainly because if
there is a bug in it, rather than just 1 or 2 people working on it in
corporate America, there will be no telling how many people working on the
same problem. My advise is to go with open when ever possible. Hope This
helps you atleast a little.
Paul
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:26 AM
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Subject: Commercial vs OpenSource
Greetings,
I probably will open the proverbial "can of worms" here, but...
With the amount of different products on the market and without starting a
religious debate, what would be the advantage of using commercial firewall
or IDS products versus OpenSource ones? I have used ipchains and snort at
sites with over 1000 nodes and it seemed to work just fine. I have also
been at sites that are using Cisco PIX and (can't remember the name) their
IDS. I really can't see any distinct advantage save for budget and
personal preference. Is it really that simple?
Thanks in advance,
- Bennett
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