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Re: [PLUG] Bandwidth Shaping and assorted appliances
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peripherally speaking, I was looking at one of those CIO magazines today.
When I started out, you bought a firewall.
Now you purchase an Internet Appliance.
The firewall can do shaping and antivirus
You purchase a separate box for antivirus and Threats.
Anyway, it seems *everything* is an appliance these days. They start
out at a few grand, then balloon upward with per-user licensing fees.
Once again I find myself in the wrong business.
And I keep thinking that the $6k box I just saw can be implemented in a
VM under linux for nothing (except a lot of sweat equity and cursing).
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