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Re: Open Source vs Proprietary

Subject: Re: Open Source vs Proprietary
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:07:04 -0400
On Jun 9, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Jonathan Glass wrote:

From my experience, it seems that most people buy appliance-based
firewalls because (a) they don't have the staff to build/maintain an OSS
product, (b) they like having a phone number and a support contract, and
(c) by having someone to blame, management will be able to shift the
blame from themselves to a vendor.

In other words, the same arguments for any open-source vs proprietary solution, be it groupware or firewalls.


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