OT: vendor contacts after list posting

[David Boyer <David () BVU EDU>]

For what it's worth, not long after making this posting I was contacted by Bradford Networks about their NAC products. 
I'm not sure how everyone else feels, but it's a real turn off for me when vendors troll these constituent group 
discussions to generate sales leads. 
 
Maybe this is common practice and I'm just being naive. Any thoughts?

> > >   David Boyer wrote:

> Anyone familiar with Ciscos Network Admission Control (formerly Cisco 
> Clean Access, formerly Perfigo), Juniper Infranet, Symantec Network 
> Access Control or similar software/appliances?
>  
> Like many schools, we have a 1:1 ration of computers to students. We'd 
> like to avoid letting vulnerable or malware-infected systems onto our 
> network while simultaneously addressing the infection or 
> vulnerability. Almost all of our systems are running Windows XP or 
> Windows 2000.
>  
> I'd be interested in hearing about your experiences with these or 
> similar solutions. Any open-source solutions that you know of?
>