It might be prudent to have a wait-n-see attitude if you run Raptor on Solaris.
- mcmahon
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> Symantec acquiring Axent Technologies should not change the support
> structure that Axent/Raptor has built over the years. in essence compared
> to Raptor, Checkpoint is the only firewall company that has not been
> acquired in the last few years.
> Symantec not only bought Axent Technologies but also acquired their
> engineers. Especially with the Symantec's L-3 acquisition a while back,
> they now have quality engineers from 3 companies instead of one.
>
> I am predicting that NetProwler 3.5 IDS product will be eventually merge in
> the Symantec Norton Internet Security 2000 product to go head to head with
> some other unmentioned vendor in the personal Firewall/IDS space, and then
> combine Raptor Firewall/NetProwler/ITA/ESM to go head to head against
> Checkpoint/RealSecure with a Corporate Firewall/IDS product.
>
> So this is a blessing for ICSA, since they will again collect more money
> from Firewall vendors since they have to test all over again, because the
> products have now been combined together. Expect lots of bugs and
> integration issues to crop up as the first/beta copies become available in
> the next few months and in about a year from now, the integrated products
> will be much better or worse, depending on your view about integrated
> products. A year from now, is it a good firewall or a good ids or a
> mediocre both.
>
> This also means any product knowledge that good infosec people have already
> accumulated about products will have to be totally flushed and re-acquired,
> which then allows SANS/GIAC, USENIX to revamp their material to address all
> the new changes, features, bugs, etc.
>
> Hope this makes sense.
>
> /m
>
> At 08:05 AM 8/31/00 -0400, Crumrine, Gary L wrote:
> >It is real easy to make statements like this without having factual data to
> >back it up. That amounts to a cheap shot. I think time will tell if there
> >are going to be any major changes. In my daily operations, I have had some
> >pretty close relations with their technical staff, along with their vendors.
> >I do not get a sense of impending doom that you suggest. Also, to compare
> >this action to what happened with another company is totally unfair as well.
> >I agree with one of the other person's answers.... that this was a money
> >deal.. nothing more, and I think that it helps both companies strengthen
> >their financial pictures. Think about it, instant market share, non
> >competing product lines, both are industry leaders... come on, it make
> >perfect business sense. I can see nothing but a stronger company emerging
> >from this. In addition, with AXENT's soon to be released entry into the
> >appliance market, they look even better than before. It made sense to buy
> >now, before the big release rather than having to pay more for it later.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Carric Dooley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 2:18 PM
> > > To: Ricky Gomez; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Raptor Firewall
> > >
> > > It's not "Raptor's" firewall. It was Axent Raptor, but they sold out to
> > > (of all people) Symantec. I would be really careful choosing this as my
> > > enterprise FW solution. You may want to hold off, or find another
> > > solution altogether. =)
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Ricky Gomez <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 2:05 PM
> > > Subject: Raptor Firewall
> > >
> > >
> > > Has anyone ever used Raptor's firewall software ? Any advice on it,
> > > ADV, DISADV, I'm looking into using it.
> > >
> > > Ricky Gomez
> > > Information Technology Department
> > >
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