[NCLUG] Vyatta hype question

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Thu May 3 19:59:42 MDT 2007


On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:04:35PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote:
> On Thursday 03 May 2007 18:06, James DeWitt wrote:
> > Also, Tom from Vyatta sent us some T-shirts and demo discs. Speakers
> > will probably get first chance at the shirts since there aren't very many.
> 
> I just looked at the Vyatta site and they claim that they are "the first 
> commercially supported, open-source router and firewall solution." This is 
> totally false. At the very least, Snapgear (now owned by Cyberguard) beat 
> them to that punch. Is there something I am missing?

Don't forget Opengear, plus a number of less well-known providers that
provide open source router and firewall solutions with commercial
support as sidelines, along with their main business (usually rackmount
systems in general).

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