Re: cymphonix

[Peter Fuggle <peterf () securepay com au>]

After a brief look it appears that the "appliance" you reference is, in 
reality, just a Linux or BSD box, as most of them are. ie. A moderately 
talented sysadmin could run up the same functionality in a relatively 
short space of time for hardware cost alone. I suspect that you'll pay 
oodles for the "seamless integration", GUI interface and 1337 looking 
(but it's not red!) case. And then there'll be the ongoing signature 
subscription fees... A colleague of mine used to say "It's nice to have 
people pay you for doing work. But it's even nicer to have people pay 
you for doing nothing!". This company adheres to that philosophy I 
think. I could be harsh and say that these boxes are for admins who are 
too stupid to use tcpdump, Snort and Perl etc. to snoop on users' 
IM...but I won't, because I don't condone snooping on IM anyway.

Cheers,

Peter



Francois Yang wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone here as played with the Cymphonix products
> (www.cymphonix.com), especially the DC30X and can give me some feed
> back.
> I've looked around on google for similal products with the same
> functions, but couldn't find any.  I usually don't like the all in one
> appliances, but this one doesn't look too bad.
> The reviews I've seen doesn't seem to be too bad and I've also
> attended the web demo.  I just wanted to see what everyone else here
> tought about it and if there are other products that are better if not
> comparable.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Frank.
>
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