I just spoke at a user conference in Manhattan, and when I spoke with Nokia
and Checkpoint (which I work very closely with) I got from them that they
stopped selling each others products because of the issues stocking them.
Checkpoint (a software company) selling hardware was too difficult. But,
Checkpoint and Nokia both affirmed their commitments to each other. That is
why this comes as a surprise. Not to mention that Nokia bought Ramp
(www.ramp.com), another company that is working with Checkpoint.
eric.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jarmoc, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'David Shimamoto'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Hemang Patel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:12 PM
Subject: RE: Checkpoint Nokia Partnership.
> Can anyone point me to these press releases? I've searched both Check
Point
> and Nokia's sites, and cannot find them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Shimamoto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 1:48 PM
> To: Hemang Patel; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Checkpoint Nokia Partnership.
>
>
> Nokia and CheckPoint announced to split ways amicably about approximately
> 20 days ago.
>
> I asked Nokia if they were planning to release their own version of a
> firewall OS and the answer came back negative.
> They had no intentions at this time to do so. But don't quote me on it.
>
> Here are press release excerpts:
>
> Effective January 20, 2000 :
> Nokia will no longer sell Check Point software, and Check Point will no
> longer sell Nokia hardware. Also effective January 20, 2000, the VPN200
and
> RL series are being discontinued.
>
> These changes will not impact the ability of our respective resellers and
> service providers to offer the combined Nokia-Check Point product to
> customers.
>
> - Check Point software will continue to be pre-tested and pre-installed on
> the Nokia appliance platforms
> - Nokia will continue to offer "First Call-Final Resolution" technical
> support for the combined offering
> - Check Point software subscriptions purchased from Nokia will be honored
> by Check Point
> - Check Point and Nokia are committed to ensuring the high quality of our
> combined offering and will continue to tighten our already successful
> relationship
> - Both companies are committed to making any necessary transitions
> seamlessly, so that support to our customers is not impacted
> - Check Point and Nokia will continue to aggressively innovate and
> co-develop technologies and solutions for our combined customers
>
>
> At 02:03 PM 1/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi;
> >I think I heard a rumor about possibility of the Nokia-Checkpoint
> >partnership in trouble.
> >If this is true, does anyone know if the current installations of the
> >firewall-1 on Nokia be still supported by both the vendors?
> >Does, anyone have more details?
> >TIA,
> >Hemang Patel
> >
> >
> >
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