Here’s Chris’ comment:
You are both way off-base! The reason Brian Smith was quoted in this article within this context is because Tippingpoint/3com are showing their honking M60 Security SWITCH at RSA! I think you guys are more interested in knocking the 3Com/Tippingpoint relationship than understanding what Brian was saying.
Chris,
I see what you are saying (from reading your post), and I agree that I may have read that wrong. But when I read “bump-in-the-wire”, I think hardware device. Even if it is super fast and doesn’t introduce any noticable latency, it is still a device to be managed.
Also, I am not really interested in knocking the relationship. Did I like the relationship when it started? No, I didn’t. I thought it made sense for 3com, but I did not like my IPS vendor being bought by 3com because I thought they would possibly screw up TippingPoint. I thought of (and still think of) 3com as a sub par enterprise switch company that is entering the game late and will probably not be able to make up the ground they have lost. And I BS you not when I talk about their attitude.
And as far as the switch they have coming out, you point out in your article that it is a year late. I spoke of “too late” in my post. That just makes me think again of their reputation.
BTW, it is good to hear from you again. I was wondering where you had disappeared to.
Vet
