For those of us with the means (including the organization I work for), encouragement of Tenable’s efforts on the Open Source side of things becomes even more crucial. Make sure that you encourage your management to buy the products. They are certainly good enough (really, I’ve used others that are “enterprise class”, and Tenable’s kicks the crap out of them), but more importantly, they have given and continue to give back to the community.
On 10/8/05 8:37 PM, "Renaud Deraison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 8, 2005, at 19:06, Benjamin Tomhave wrote:
>
> Where I am potentially concerned is in the situation where a small
> company
> may have deployed Nessus internally to scan systems. Many small
> companies
> cannot afford commercial products, which is why they oftentimes
> turn to open
> source software. Will these companies now be required to pay a
> license fee?
Let me quote myself from my initial email on the subject :
<<
To make things simple :
- Nessus 2 : GPL, will have regular releases containing bug fixes
- Nessus 3 : free of charge, contains major improvements
>>
Not only Nessus 3 is free of charge, but we intend to make it free on
the Windows platform as well.
Also, it has been insinuated by people who don't know better that
Nessus 2.x would not be maintained. This is false. We have no EOL for
Nessus 2.x. There is an EOL for Nessus 2.2.x, which will be made
public when Nessus 2.4.x is released, though. Nessus 2.x-GPL is NOT a
dead branch. The only thing is that you won't see any architectural
improvements to it.
I think a lot of people do not understand what the Nessus engine is :
it's a platform to run plugins effectively. When we improve a NASL
plugin, the improvement works both on Nessus 2.x and on 3.x. So
sticking to Nessus 2.x is fine if you don't want to upgrade.
-- Renaud
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