Re: I love the smell of whining in the morning...

[Wim Remes <wremes () gmail com>]

I think they have done a seperate (payed) test with the same testing house which showed different results
from the test that the testing house independently performed for the report.

Looking forward to the report too :-D



On 07 Dec 2009, at 19:55, guiness.stout wrote:

> I'm not sure if I am reading this correctly...
>
> "In fact, the results are significantly different from the results we
> found during paid private testing with this test house a few weeks
> ago."
>
> So they paid a 3rd party to come test their product is what I get from
> that sentence.  Now that company is releasing the report?  I could
> understand how they might be upset but was their no NDA or even SOW
> before the test?  I've never heard of a company having a test like
> this done and not having something in place that says the results are
> confidential and to only be released to the client.
>
> I'll be interested to see the report and who did the testing.
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Joel M Snyder <Joel.Snyder () opus1 com> wrote:
> > Before the report is even published by an un-named test lab, TippingPoint is
> > whining about the results.  I guess in the blogosphere, everyone can hear
> > you scream...
> >
> > "In the next several days, a report will be published by a small
> > third-party test house that evaluated various intrusion prevention
> > solutions...As much as we would like to endorse the report and interspersed
> > commentary, we are unable to do so. There are more than a few discrepancies
> > between the report findings and what our customers have experienced, what we
> > have found in our own testing and other third-party test results. In fact,
> > the results are significantly different from the results we found during
> > paid private testing with this test house a few weeks ago. We made every
> > effort to engage with this test house and understand the gap between the
> > report findings and the various other test findings. We even asked the test
> > house to briefly delay the report until we could work together to reconcile
> > the differences. The test house refused to do so. It's unfortunate this type
> > of information has been [sic] published but we will nonetheless continue to
> > work on behalf of our customers and engage with third-party test houses to
> > validate and help us improve our industry leading solutions."
> >
> > http://tippingpointblog.com/
> >
> > jms
> > --
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> > Senior Partner, Opus One       Phone: +1 520 324 0494
> > jms () Opus1 COM                http://www.opus1.com/jms
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