Maybe we are looking at this the wrong way. Maybe checkpoint backed out because the looked under the covers and realized it was not worth it. Sourcefire is a good product for some people but it seems like it would be a heck of a lot cheaper for Checkpoint to take snort put some $$ into supporting the code and extend the product that way. I mean all that $$ for something that is Open source seems kinda dumb. Put a 10th of the purchase price into the community and support the continued open developement of the platform, integrate the resulting product into their firewall package and get lots of kudos (and street cred) from the community seems smarter - but I dunno maybe they know something we don't :)

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