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Time to Move on

William Warren

After many years of my time researching(even reporting a DOS inside of Astaro v4), advocacy, finally reselling, I have had to make the decision to move on due to Sophos now practically ignoring smaller partners(mostly silvers) and general lack of code quality.  I finally could not beat my head against a door of developers both on the forums and in private telling me i was wrong over and over when I could prove i was correct..even with the backing of this wonderful community.  If my reputation in this community and my track record of accuracy was not enough to get me at least a bit of cred with the devs.....

I have since moved to PfSense and now have an IPS system that doesn't need 4 ghz of cpu power and multiple simultaneous clients to have high speed traffic processing.  I am also hooking clients that need only basic firewalls(not UTM) using the Ubiquiti firewalls as well. Please hit me up on my  Facebook page or at my business blog if you want more information.  

I have enjoyed my time within this community even if Sophos made my time with them not pleasant behind the scenes.   I have let my partner software licenses(XG and SG )and Home expire and with a sad heart I saw goodbye to this wonderful community.  I hope Sophos eventually gets their act straight and I tip my hat to those who stick with it.

Sincerely,

William Warren



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  • Hi william, sorry to see you go. I am not a partner so I can't comment on the low priority given to silver partners, however UTM hasn't really been the same since the old astaro days. The community is still great but UTM seems stagnant and XG ... well its XG. I don't know what your clients are like but sometimes we have to use one of the "Big Boys" products because that is what is expected in a company.

    I was a big fan of vyatta and have used ubiquiti routers. I love their APs but they are not really a replacement for a UTM product. I had been a long time user of pfsense and used to love it before the whole licensing fiasco from BSD to weird pfsense license because they thought someone was going to steal their product??? BSD license by definition allows you to steal someone's product that is why apple uses it and calls it IOS. And now with chris leaving pfsense https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=115948.0 , frankly I don't trust them anymore. Also probably because I feel more comfortable using linux than BSD flavors. For smaller deployments, I tried IPFire and it is pretty similar to pfsense but not as flexible but the underlying system is linux so I feel more comfortable messing with the configs.

    In any case, I am getting side tracked. I wish you good luck with your endeavors. The way firewall trends are these days, you never can really say goodbye to anyone if the client demands a certain product, so keeping my fingers crossed that we will see you atleast visit every once in a while[;)]

    Good Luck

    Bill

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  • Hi william, sorry to see you go. I am not a partner so I can't comment on the low priority given to silver partners, however UTM hasn't really been the same since the old astaro days. The community is still great but UTM seems stagnant and XG ... well its XG. I don't know what your clients are like but sometimes we have to use one of the "Big Boys" products because that is what is expected in a company.

    I was a big fan of vyatta and have used ubiquiti routers. I love their APs but they are not really a replacement for a UTM product. I had been a long time user of pfsense and used to love it before the whole licensing fiasco from BSD to weird pfsense license because they thought someone was going to steal their product??? BSD license by definition allows you to steal someone's product that is why apple uses it and calls it IOS. And now with chris leaving pfsense https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=115948.0 , frankly I don't trust them anymore. Also probably because I feel more comfortable using linux than BSD flavors. For smaller deployments, I tried IPFire and it is pretty similar to pfsense but not as flexible but the underlying system is linux so I feel more comfortable messing with the configs.

    In any case, I am getting side tracked. I wish you good luck with your endeavors. The way firewall trends are these days, you never can really say goodbye to anyone if the client demands a certain product, so keeping my fingers crossed that we will see you atleast visit every once in a while[;)]

    Good Luck

    Bill

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