Hello Yuriko, I have no idea who had the bright idea of making so many changes in the licensing scheme from R65 to R70, obviousy some guy who has never dealt directly with installations or customers, just thinking about making extra money and nothing else, but I do agree is a complete rip off. I work for a Check Point reseller and every single one of our customers is upset due to the amount of money they will have to pay to level up with the new version.
Now, the deal here is R70 does support all licenses in the UTM/Power line, so if you bought all your licenses after NGX was released or made Functionality Upgrades to licenses in that line, you can safely upgrade to R70, although off course some of the new features in that software version will not be available, you will still have a fully functional firewall platform with at least the same features as before. BUT, if you still hold some of the licenses in the Pro/Express line, you will forcibly need to do a Functionality Upgrade, otherwise your licenses will not be recognized by an R70 installation. Regards On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:45 PM, No Name Available <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello. > I'd like to ask some of you who upgraded your NGX to R70 + software blades > if you had to pay a lot of money. > We recently got a quote from CheckPoint for the migration. > According to that, before discount, they charge us over 70% of the new > version > Product since their "trade-in limit" is 22%. Even after discount, we can > "trade-in" only about 50% of product price of what we have now. > It doesn't make sense to me. > > Please tell me your experience. > > Thank you. > Yuriko > Scanned by Check Point Total Security Gateway. > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, > send an email to [email protected] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [email protected] > ================================================= > -- Sergio Alvarez +(506)88301342 ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [email protected] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [email protected] =================================================
