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.