Re: NetScreen / Juniper

Joseph S D Yao <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.vpn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:30:31AM -0700, Travis Watson wrote:
...
> merger gets them much closer.  And, with this merger, I would say that it's 
> the final death blow to any firewall not on ASIC or running a 
> micro-kernel/controller architecture.  So the question isn't really "should I 
> put an investment in Netscreen or Cisco?" but "should I put an investment 
> into any company that is not Netscreen or Cisco?"  I just can't imagine how 
> Checkpoint, Sidewinder, etc. can be viable products 5 years from now unless 
> they significantly re-architect their systems very soon.

OK, what kind of pure application proxies are available in an ASIC or a
micro-kernel/controller architecture?

> As for Netscreen/Juniper, they aren't leaving anytime soon.

They did beat out Cisco in some money thing in the Business section
this week.  [I don't follow the money stuff very well.]

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