From: Mark Forest (mforest@inetiq.com)
Date: Thu Aug 04 2005 - 18:12:38 GMT-3
Double Bingo...
While I fully support open development, the reality is that when it comes to
support and taking ownership for service level, commercial products will win
everytime.
I can hold Cisco or my carrier accountable for certain things. I cannot hold
Joe who hacks code at midnight for my FreeBSD router to take accountbility
for a failure.
mf
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Kumar Raja-Q16843
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:11 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: OT- Open Source Networking Devices
Bingo ........... There you go
Raja
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
George Lampron
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 12:36 AM
To: John.Sheahan@priceline.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: OT- Open Source Networking Devices
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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-----Original Message-----
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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