From: George Lampron (GLampron@hollandhart.com)
Date: Thu Aug 04 2005 - 16:06:00 GMT-3
The Cisco support is your best business case
Most businesses cannnot survive for long without data services or lose large sums of money when their computers are down
This is why you must have the best know computer systems in place.
Cisco is the main supplier of network infrastructure in the world. I have heard estimates of 60 to 80 percent of the fortune 1000 companies run on Cisco. This leaves 20 of the market to be divided by everyone else.
Checkpoint is the number 2 firewall
Who knows who is number 3 today
If you are going to invest in a reliable secure network to run your company are you going to buy the best or are you going to risk you career and your compaines reputation on a cheap alternaitve???
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com <nobody@groupstudy.com>
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thu Aug 04 12:51:53 2005
Subject: OT- Open Source Networking Devices
Recently there have been several articles in the recent IT magazines and
online talking about how open source routers and firewalls are the
future.
I have had several arguments with unix geeks about why we shouldn't use
these over Cisco devices in production scenarios.
There is apparently a growing project called XORP that is developing
open source code which can currently route OSPF and BGP on a PC.
I am trying to develop a list of good reasons to help diffuse this line
of thinking. I know the router code isn't prime time yet but apparently
the firewall code for Linux is.
Can anyone help me come up with some good reasons why not to use the
open source firewall on Linux over a Pix or Checkpoint firewall?
Thanks
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