Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 10, 2005 08:01 AM
The author did not spend enough time checking his facts. The two obvious mistakes that came to mind as I read the article are #1 the pricing is not accurate, $290 per 10 users is correct but that is not an annual cost, rather it is a one time cost. Also, the web content filter does not allow pages through if they have not been classified. That the author mentions this as a weakness of all web content filters make me thing he has not spent much time working with any of them. Almost all content filters (Astaro included) will by default *block* any site that has not been classified. In the Astaro case, the site is then submitted to the company that maintains the classification database and is supposed to be classified within 24 hours. This is typical of all the filtering software I have worked with. There may be other factual errors in this article, so read with caution and check the facts. All in all, I am glad to see that the Astaro is getting some more attention, it is really an excellent product.
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This review has some factual errors
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 10, 2005 08:01 AMAlso, the web content filter does not allow pages through if they have not been classified. That the author mentions this as a weakness of all web content filters make me thing he has not spent much time working with any of them. Almost all content filters (Astaro included) will by default *block* any site that has not been classified. In the Astaro case, the site is then submitted to the company that maintains the classification database and is supposed to be classified within 24 hours. This is typical of all the filtering software I have worked with.
There may be other factual errors in this article, so read with caution and check the facts.
All in all, I am glad to see that the Astaro is getting some more attention, it is really an excellent product.
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