>"gill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My question for this discussion is this: why would CheckPoint take
>FireWall-1 to NT? It seems that they are the commercial software firewall
>leaders in the marketplace. Why would they risk jeopardizing their product
>and their reputation by selling a product to be built on top of an OS that
>isn't (or can't be made to be) secure?
The answer to this question has less to do with security and more to do
with marketing and market position. I suspect Checkpoint is just trying
to meet the needs of their customer base. Customers demanded a firewall
solution on NT, so Checkpoint responded with an NT firewall solution.
Smoot Carl-Mitchell
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