Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> 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 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.
Plenty of people are still using BSD in various appliances, though it's
not BSDi, but FreeBSD (usually.) Red Creek is an example. The real
problem with NT (embedded or no, in a firewall context) is not the price
-- If it really did everything microsoft claims it will, it would be
worth the cost! The problems with NT are its poor networking performance
(this has gotten a lot better in win2k, but not good enough to where I'd
want to use NT as a router or firewall) and the probability that it will
continue to have more and greater exploits.
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