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Snort sold to cisco

guawhitehawk
Hi!

i just wanted to know what happens to snort used in the UTM products now while cisco bought sourcefire. will their be any changes to the IPS?


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    Given the nearly 100% overlap between Cisco's ips portfolio and Sourcefire's I think this is simply Cisco buying a competitor out.  Once the contracts expire expect snort to disappear and those customers get pushed to Cisco's products.
  • 0 in reply to William Warren
    ^^^ What William said. I am happy for little man getting paid but tired of big companies buying out GPL software and making it closed source or worse just killing the project. Lets see if astaro stays with their original philosopy of staying with open source like Suricata or we go closed source and sophos develops their own IDS engine for the UTM... I think it would be the latter.
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  • 0 in reply to William Warren
    ^^^ What William said. I am happy for little man getting paid but tired of big companies buying out GPL software and making it closed source or worse just killing the project. Lets see if astaro stays with their original philosopy of staying with open source like Suricata or we go closed source and sophos develops their own IDS engine for the UTM... I think it would be the latter.
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