Sorry, I didn't mean to ruffle so many feathers in this mailing list. It's just that I am 1 week into a 2 week implementation of Nessus as a scanning solution and all of a sudden I have to start over and there are new costs I need to present to management, where previously I had sold them on the idea of Nessus being free.
I have researched Lightning Console, NeWT, and other Tenable products and would love to purchase them but they have priced themselves out of our market. We are a small company with only about 50 servers in 3 network segments and less than 30 employees. $15,000 for a scanning management console is too much money. I can probably sell management on the subscription fees for Nessus, but it would have been nice to know about them going into the game. Changing the terms and only giving folks 3 weeks notice seems a little unfair. I'm not complaining that there are fees, just that things have changed very suddenly, and it makes me look bad to have recommended a "free" product that's not really free anymore. FWIW I can sympathize with the developers if commercial builds of Nessus are stealing their code and not honoring the GPL, but one analogy I can come up with is this: How would you feel if the Apache Foundation all of a sudden said that you had to "subscribe" to get security updates to Apache? There would be an uproar. Anyway, that's it for now. Thanks for the quick response Renaud and I look forward to trying version 2.2.2. Cheers, Luke -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hugo van der Kooij Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems compiling Nessus 2.2.1 on Solaris On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Luke Youngblood wrote: > If you're going to charge enterprise dollars for this type of software, is > it too much to ask that it compile properly on an enterprise platform like > Solaris? Since you did not spend a dime I will put in my $0.02 and advise you to take a large shovel and put a truckload of money in it and go to a company like ISS. Then you can spend even more money to buy PC hardware and loads of money on computing taxes to that Redmond company. If you only donated 1% of that amount to Tenable you might have a reason to complain about support on Nessus. Hugo. -- I hate duplicates. Just reply to the relevant mailinglist. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/ Don't meddle in the affairs of magicians, for they are subtle and quick to anger. _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
