Sun Engineers: Cool. Sun Marketers: Opportunists

mbpark · 02-25-2002, 04:33 PM

I came to one conclusion:

You can't sell a unified security product. Ever.

The reason why: Applications.

Security has to be fine-tuned for all apps.

Even the best products only provide 50% of what you need to actually prepare a system to be somewhat secure, and even then you've not done a good enough job. IF you think otherwise, you're probably an MCSE

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Therefore, Sun selling a security product is:

A. An oxymoron. Solaris is full of holes.
B. Trying to make bucks since their products are on eBay for 10% of retail. I had a friend pick up a loaded 220R for about $2,500. Ouch.

Oh well. You get what you pay for.

Mitch

02-25-2002, 04:33 PM	#5
mbpark Lecturer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Carmel, Indiana Posts: 761	Dham, I thought long about this one: I came to one conclusion: You can't sell a unified security product. Ever. The reason why: Applications. Security has to be fine-tuned for all apps. Even the best products only provide 50% of what you need to actually prepare a system to be somewhat secure, and even then you've not done a good enough job. IF you think otherwise, you're probably an MCSE . Therefore, Sun selling a security product is: A. An oxymoron. Solaris is full of holes. B. Trying to make bucks since their products are on eBay for 10% of retail. I had a friend pick up a loaded 220R for about $2,500. Ouch. Oh well. You get what you pay for. Mitch

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