Comment Check Point 90% firewall market (Score 1) 133
I believe that all the people who stated they would just stick with IP chains are 100% correct to do so because they obviously do not have an enterprise network to protect. People who run FW-1 are big businesses. Anyone that would say that IP chains would work for say an international bank has never worked with that scale of network.
As far as the why not BSD posts. CP FW-1 does run on BSD - Its called Knokia IP440. Although they do not sell the BSD code alone the Knokia IP440s do run BSD. I would be more willing to install CP FW-1 on LINUX than CP FW-1 on BSD.
Check Point has 90% of the market share for commercial firewall products. The reason is because of the superior product they produce. Statefull Inspection, interoperable VPN, modular design and proven track record are just a few reasons Check Point is the predominant firewall on the market.
Now as to how this effects LINUX, as a whole is drastic. Big companies, under the advice of their knowledgle technical staff will start using CP FW-1 on Linux. Finally a product that puts LINUX in the spotlight were it can really shine. LINUX makes a much better server than a client any day and we should all support LINUX as a server platform because doing so will ensure the future of it.
As far as the why not BSD posts. CP FW-1 does run on BSD - Its called Knokia IP440. Although they do not sell the BSD code alone the Knokia IP440s do run BSD. I would be more willing to install CP FW-1 on LINUX than CP FW-1 on BSD.
Check Point has 90% of the market share for commercial firewall products. The reason is because of the superior product they produce. Statefull Inspection, interoperable VPN, modular design and proven track record are just a few reasons Check Point is the predominant firewall on the market.
Now as to how this effects LINUX, as a whole is drastic. Big companies, under the advice of their knowledgle technical staff will start using CP FW-1 on Linux. Finally a product that puts LINUX in the spotlight were it can really shine. LINUX makes a much better server than a client any day and we should all support LINUX as a server platform because doing so will ensure the future of it.
