I wish someone from Astaro such as Tom or Gert or Markus would give us some info re: IPS for Home/Power users [:)]
I for one need to be able to play with things at home before I get my employer to spend $2999USD a year for IPS. We have just purchased another firewall license, and renewed our unlimited IP Up2date, so I think it is only fair since I am getting Astaro so much money [;)]
Same here... My employer bought (on my advice) two $2999USD licenses. But hey! At least you have a Power ASL User license..... They refused my request...
Yup.. that is what the price is for our Enteprise box with unlimited IP's (now known as Unlimited Conc. Connections and Unlimited Users)... smaller licenses have much smaller price tags for the IPS. Ranges from $275 to $2990 based on your license.
While I have been a loyal ASL "follower" since v1.8, I am not so sure I agree with the seperate licensing for IPS. The Cobion and AV I can see as they are 3rd party products. But Snort is developed and updated by the OSS community for the community.
I will still probably be able to convince my boss to spend the money, but it is going to hurt.
I have spent a long time trying to convince people how much better ASL is than PIX/Raptor/Checkpoint. But I know at least the PIX includes the IDS stuff. We should at least be able to enable it, just not update it. without the license.
I agree, given that Snort is Open Source the idea of being able to enable but not update sounds fairish. Personally I'm rather dissapointed in this. Waiting to hear a statement from Astaro on this.
I haven't even been able to test IPS on the beta really since ADSL was only fixed recently and I haven't had the time since that was patched.
