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Comment Re:Where's the advantage? (Score 1) 137

AIUI the thing also has massive remote administration capabilities - I cant check for myself at the moment because at least from here the site is comprehensively slashdotted. And I was envisaging this thing *being* the VPN'er - an OS independant jobbie that will work with our MACheads, our UltraSparcers and our i86ers on a completely uniform platform sounds dreamy. As long is it appears on a PCI slot as an ethernet card all is gutt. ;) You wouldnt believe how badly people can screw their home PC's, and the grief a software solution that absolutely must run interuptted to provide secure connectivity can have. Equally, you wouldnt believe the grief you'd have trying to convince 15000 techno luddites who just want their market data/portfolio/email/real broadcast/etc that they should be using linux. Or the tecno ubergeeks who are damned if they're developing ona linux box instead of their sparc. etc. *shrug*. One mans pain is anothers gain, an all that...

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