Yes, according to the poster this morning, it was definitely the Netwolves
from TAMPA. It appears that the product is still going through what I call
growing pains of becoming a mature product, but I will give the poster the
benefit of the doubt.
Netwolves will probably meet the same demise as other in the firewall
appliance space. The firewall appliance space was a very difficult space
to define in 1997. What is it,a toaster that does what.. Everyone thought
cool, let's take the burden of hardening an o/s out of the firewall admin
hands, and provide them with some sort of box that has firewall
capabilities that all they have to do is tweak the rules here and there and
poof drop-in firewall. Well, ok, one just put yourself in an another
market space, the appliance space: WatchGuard, Whistle (now IBM), and
others. So now are you a SOHO firewall appliance or a corporate
appliance. So many choices,..
OK, back to the Symantec issue, the firewall/ids space is somewhat merging
together to create a bigger pond for the fish to swim in, that means more
competition.. Maybe, maybe not.. only time will tell
/m
At 09:51 PM 8/31/00 -0400, J Weismann wrote:
>aha if it's the netwolves from tampa, count me out on purchasing that
>product for unix...i knew the programmer for that one..i'll pass :)
>
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>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Crumrine, Gary L"
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carric Dooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ricky Gomez
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: RE: Raptor Firewall
>>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:37:23 -0700
>>
>>As someone just recently pointed out to be another firewall/web appliance
>>solution. Netwolves FoxBox, but it has some limitations and according to
>>the web page and prospectus are really focused on competing against the
>>Cobalt Networks cube, which again is a different market space than what
>>Symantec/Axent, NAI, Checkpoint, is in. Of course, this will all change
>>over the next year, when the bigger players start knocking some of the
>>smaller players out. As this has been observed in the Firewall space quite
>>clearly over the last few years. It is slowly being observed in the IDS
>>space.
>>
>>/mark
>>
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