A former PW senior manager once said to me: "One stop shopping", but I guess he meant the secretarial pool, but that is another story altogether.. :) One stop shopping, not one size fits all. If one get all their Internet connectivity, E2E security instead of paying this company for this, this company for that, and have the two or three companies talk to each other regarding DNS, IP address, etc, etc. But since the ADT model made VC's drool, everyone tried to get in the game. But the problem here is that if the market is only going to cap off at about $300 million, the players in about a year will be down to about 5 or 6, The smaller MSP will either go bust or got bought by a medium sized MSP, and then the medium sized MSP will get gobbled up the by the Larger sized MSP. The Larged sized MSP will get gobbled up by the surviving ISPs out there.. But back to the main fair fare of this thread. How do you know an MSP is worth the monthly overhead. ?? At 10:14 PM 6/27/2001 -0500, Ron DuFresne wrote: >If one is supplying management features in the form of service packages a >ISP might offer, far too often companies get pigeon holed into a 'one size >fits all' offering. Specialty items are going to require greater >expenditures on support and engineering folks and certainly cost... > >Thanks, > >Ron DuFresne _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list Firewalls@lists.gnac.net http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls