You may also notice that the price quoted in the review in GBP is suspiciously close numerically to the list price in USD. By today's exchange rate (1GBP = 1.415USD) they've listed the GB1000 as $3250.
GTA may have different pricing in the UK than in the US, but if not then I wonder if the reviewer took the street price of the GB1000 in USD and listed it as the price in GBP. Mike Burden Lynk Systems http://www.lynk.com (616)532-4985 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:43 PM > To: Steve Leach; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gb-users] GB1000 .vs. a Batch of Solutions > > > At 05:26 PM 2/28/02 +0000, Steve Leach wrote: > >Below is a link to a Network News test review of the Gnatbox GB1000 > >hardware up against a number of it's peers. > >It performs fairly badly in the tests - especially in the > dropoff sessions > >area, but gets good marks for features. > > > >http://www.networknews.co.uk/Products/Hardware/1129400#reviews > > > >I am not attacking the GB1000 - it has proven a robust and > cost effective > >firewall for us, and indeed that is still the case. > >I wonder though, is the GB1000 falling behind a little in > terms of it's > >scalability, I mean, if you were looking for a solution, and > read that > >report today - would you choose the GB1000? > > let's be fair here. here were the two recommendations: > > watchguard 4500 prices run somewhere over $7000 US > netscreen 208 list price in the neighborhood of $15000 US > > not boosting gb here, but i frankly wonder at the utility of > an article > that compares products with > such a wide range of price and performance. it's also a little > disappointing that the article didn't > mention the gb-flash option - if the cpu in the gb-1000 isn't > good enough, > build your own box with, > say, a P4/1.8GHZ box or whatever. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
