[sebastan_bach]

hi all l i know that checkpoint is a awesome product but it is one of the most expensive ones. my friends in india have seen that most of the small enterprise having a checkpoint with 100 to 500 users are migrating to netscreen,fortinet or cisco.

the biggest problem is with checkpoint they are lot of modules for which again the cost is a factor with recurring cost of renewing the licenses every year. none of the current products in the market have this concept.

first poeple have to buy the licenses then buy dedicated hardware for throughput like nokia and alteon and again spend on them and plus keep on paying the cost of licensing every year.

whereas u take a netsrceen or fortinet box which gives u dedicated hardware throughput plus they have all anti-virus,anti-spam,content-filtering,ips,ssl vpn in one single box.

then why would poeple like to bear the cost of such a expensive product.

i have seen only big enterprises like banks and all have been able to afford checkpoint small and medium size enterprises are migrating from checkpoint to other one box and cheaper solutions.

and this certification would only become famous like CCIE cause cisco has created a huge job market for cisco certified professionals and specially for CCIE's. this certification would also become famous once checkpoint creates a job market for it.

i feel it;s high time that checkpoint should have a ips solution in their perimeter security solution and come with their dedicated hardware.

just my views

regards

sebastan