On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Shawn Kelly wrote:
> This is more of a curiosity question than anything
> else. I was wondering if anyone has considered using
> NT Embedded for a firewall platform?
I'm sure it's been considered.
>
> Since we want to have a minimal NT system, and NT
> embedded can provide that, I'm a bit surprised
> firewall vendors haven't adopted this option for their
> appliances. I would also expect a performance increase
> over vanilla NT.
>
> Or do you think that people, including firewall
> vendors, just consider NT to be trash and not worth
> the investment.
I don't think there's a lot of value add in the embedded market from
having NT available. If you're shipping low-end SOHO appliances, there's
no real value and a per-unit license that isn't necessary for a freeware
based *nix application. Even the old "Strip BSDi" model has fallen by the
wayside IMO. Appliance-like devices generally have low margins to begin
with, so paying a "Microsoft tax" hurts.
Paul
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