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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: Re[2]: Answer: Re: [FW1] Rainwall-E vs StoneBeat FullCluster
Cedric, Your point is well taken, and I will be glad to discontinue the thread. I had originally resisted posting a comparison, for exactly the reasons you mention. I only did so in response to a direct invitation from users on the forum. Please accept my apologies if you found this debate intrusive or off-topic. As you rightly point out, both Mark Boltz and I are heavily-biased sources of information. People should examine all the solutions firsthand and come to their own conclusion. If anyone has further questions relating to this thread, please send them offline to Mark Boltz or myself. Best regards, Mark L. Decker Rainfinity [email protected] Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Cedric Amand Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 1:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re[2]: Answer: Re: [FW1] Rainwall-E vs StoneBeat FullCluster MD> I'm glad StoneSoft has finally posted their rebuttal to my comparison And I'm not. Again, I may be living on another planet, I'm already on another continent ;), but I think this is a firewall-1 related mailing list, not a marketing tool or a newsgroup. It's even RUN by Checkpoint itself, and your self-promotion for both of your products shouldn't be here. Stonesoft didn't really post here, it just reacted. But they had no choice, with such a comparison beeing publicly posted, they had to answer. I would have preferred thye just answered something like what I'm posting here ("we won't enter this game with you") but they didn't. Too bad ;) Anyway, the way Stonesoft replied to your mail was extremely professional, imho, preferring to refer existing documents rather than enter an (even profesionnal and nice looking) flamewar. "Never listens to the technical arguments and counter-arguments of someone who has something to sell" is my way of working. Always prefer comparisons made by third parties, or better, your own experience. All hardware and software vendors have to learn by heart a little booklet with the main drawbacks of all the other competing solutions, everyone that has worked with many vendors knows that. Choosing a product is not comparing two booklets full of the drawbacks of each solution, it's choosing the one that first of all you know well (could easily debug yourself), and then matches your needs as much as possible. Choosing the "best product" is certainly not the immediate solution to all problems as many people seem to believe. Just my two cents. I have no intention of buying either Stonesoft or Rainwall as i'm more than happy with my current hardware solution ;-). ============================================================================ ==== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ============================================================================ ==== ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
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