The long reach of Oracle

[Rich Braun]

Ned Harvey asked:
> Are you discounting openvpn for some reason?  pfSense?  m0n0wall?

Openvpn and these others address a much different requirement, that of linking
layer-3 connectivity.  SSL Explorer/Adito (and the commercial platforms from
Juniper, Cisco and Barracuda) are not comparable; they operate at the
application layer well above layer 3.

> I'm not sure what you're afraid of.  But if you think oracle is unfriendly
> to open source, think again.

Maybe I shouldn't be "afraid" (you chose that word, it's not quite the
sentiment I was driving toward in my initial posting).  Would love to hear
from others who agree with either of us.

-rich