I realize that more features meands more resources... This may be exceptable for corp's with lots of money, but for home and office users it mean a SOHO device will win the battle of the price war. i.e; Even if the FW is free... why pay 600+ on a system to host it.
Givin' that ASL v5 is based on Linux it seems that to be a bit "bloated". The base install is around 200 meg and open takes 75+ Meg of RAM just to boot and sit there. Maybe it's just me... been spoiled by running on firewalls, web servers, smb, etc... on 486 and low end Pentiums.
and more, so don't complain.