Cyberguard to buy Snapgear

[mboy]

For anyone interested:

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[wlee]

I'm wondering what this is going to mean for support and upgrades/servicepacks ? Usually companies do this because they want a path to migrate users to their more profitable "Enterprise" products. Recent examples of this. Cisco buys Linksys. Symantec buys Nexland. I was seriously considering buying a SnapGear SME570 to replace my Symantec 200R, but now I wonder if that is such a good choice.

 

[mboy]

Well, the thing with Cyberguard is their stuff is quite a step up from Snapgear's (FAR bigger jump from a Linksys to Cisco Pix501). I mean their stuff is total BIG enterprise TOP end stuff, they dont have anything even close to the Small business/SOHO market. There is some info on their site about it. I think they will bring only good to snapgear as it appears they are keeping Snapgear independant from the cyberguard line:

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[cmetz]

The bigger question here is that SnapGear has been a very generous contributor to the embedded Linux free software community, including but not limited to distributing all of the GPLed source components for their routers in a useful form. Cyberguard might not be on that page, and the contribution to the community and good distributions for the users might cease. Time will tell.