[Lilux-help] Inventory as of 01/07/2004

[Pascal Steichen]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:08:54PM +0200, Patrick LEMMERS wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 20:53, Brent Frère wrote:
> > 
> > 3) Community supported editions (such as Fedora, Debian, Gentoo...) 
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> > ... No customer will go for class 3 distros
> 
> FYI, the isp of your previous employer is putting in place a whole new
> kind of banking plateform for a AAA bank (they are only 5 in the world
> ...) solely based on Debian.
> We've just passed all the security tests from a well known belgian
> security company and expect to go live sometimes before the end of the
> year.
> 
> Convincing those people to get away from the comfort of commercial
> support in favour of the security of knowing exactely what the code
> does, wasn't that easy.
> As expected they wanted originally the full commercial solution (Win +
> CheckPoint firewalls), we then managed to convince them that RedHat +
> CheckPoint was an equally viable solution.
> In the end, after we explained them in *big details* who was behind
> Debian and how their software was produced, tested and maintained, they
> finally accepted a debian (stable obviously !)+ iptables solution.
>  
> In order to reassure themselves they insist on talking about "the Debian
> Group" .... ;-) ... but we won't contradict them as this could be a big
> step for the credibility of opensource (at least in Luxembourg).

This is really interessting and valuable information, but as you don't mention them I think it is still confidential, isn't it? However I'm really enthousiastic on having more detailed info about this issue. If possible we could maybe share info via a more secure channel ?

ciao,
pst

>  
> 
> a+
> Parick.
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Lilux-help mailing list
> Lilux-help at lilux.lu
> http://lilux.lu/mailman/listinfo/lilux-help

-- 
Pascal Steichen
pascal.steichen at linux.lu

Lilux ASBL
www.lilux.lu 

" Linux is like a woman, hard to understand  
  But very nice once you get under the hood. "