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Subject: Re: Firewall-1 toolkit from Checkpoint
From: Marc_Mangus @ ccmail . geoworks . com
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 94 17:30:34 PST
To: DALAL @ harpo . chime . org, firewalls @ greatcircle . com
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          We are evaluating it now.  It looks like a good package.
          The GUI interface is really nice - I haven't seen any other
          firewall software as easy to use.  Now the bad part; the
          manual is so bad they might as well not include one.
          Also the pricing is arbitrary and not based on value.  You
          can pay around $5k if you have less than 50 nodes or $20k if
          you have more.

          Since the firewall only "sees" the machines it is
          controlling security on (or the routers) it seems nutty to
          me to base the price this way.  It seems to say "we can get
          more money from people with large networks without
          delivering additional value".  Just my .02.  Again, overall
          it looks like a good package.

          Marc



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