From fsb-return-28-Bernard.Lang=inria.fr@crynwr.com Thu Nov 6 10:24:42 1997 Mailing-List: contact fsb-help@crynwr.com; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list fsb@crynwr.com Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:24:09 +0100 Message-Id: <199711060924.KAA23904@axel.signum.se> From: Magnus Redin To: fsb@crynwr.com In-reply-to: (kragen@dnaco.net) Subject: Re: Recent Linux-based commercial systems Hi! At Signum Support we have developed two linux based products. One Tcl/Tk based admin shell called readynet for Internet servers that takes care of System, DNS, User, INN, Webserver and Modem configuration. Unfortunately it and its 220 page manual is all in Swedish as our customers were Swedish schools, smaller companies and ISP:s. Its translation to English is postponed indefinately. The newer frescher product is a Linux based firewall we call Fuego Firewall with web based administration and its a completely contained system. The regular user never sees a prompt and dosent need it for configuration, getting logs, backing up the configuration or upgrading. We even dont give them the root password unless they ask for it. We get lots of positive feedback from customers on its ease of use and low cost. Its still all in Swedish but this product is being translated to English, mostly for the European markets right now. We are also developing a VPN function. One of our competitors on the swedish market is actually watchguard. *waves to listreaders over there* The biggest hurdle for getting more sales is making the customers aware that they need better security. We mostly take sales from Firewall 1 and alike when people want something that is easy to administrate and not as expensive. Some customers have upgraded to our system when they got fed up with trying to get the older one to work as they wish. I love such sales... :-) And our webserver is unfortunately nearly all Swedish, we simply has not had the time yet to fix that in a good way. There has been a lot happening. We now got 16 full time employes roughly half working with our products and half with mostly free software related consulting and its growing well. Regards, --- Free software - Ibland får man mer än vad man betalar för. Magnus Redin redin@signum.se http://www.signum.se/ ===================== was a reply to ========================================= From fsb-return-27-Bernard.Lang=inria.fr@crynwr.com Thu Nov 6 04:58:02 1997 Mailing-List: contact fsb-help@crynwr.com; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list fsb@crynwr.com X-Authentication-Warning: picard.dnaco.net: kragen owned process doing -bs From: "Kragen \"Skewed\" Sitaker" To: fsb@crynwr.com Subject: Recent Linux-based commercial systems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Corel is going to ship a Linux-based NC, as they announced some time ago. See http://www.corel.com/news/1997/october/vnc.htm for details. WatchGuard's main product is a 'network security appliance' -- a Linux machine preconfigured as a firewall, with a Tk management GUI that runs on another machine. See http://www.watchguard.com/ for more details. Of course, Cygnus has been shipping the GNU tools as a commercial product for years, and other people on the list have done similar things. I just wanted to call attention to some developments I think are new: - These solutions are aimed at people who aren't familiar with free software. They're not selling, say, support to people who already use CVS or gcc -- they're creating commercial solutions from free software. - They brag about Linux and free software in general; http://www.watchguard.com/sms.html is where WatchGuard does it. Kragen