Comments on: Smarts, timing and chutzpah

When it comes to security products, Jon Oltsik says sophisticated tools are being dumbed down for a reason.

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This story's beginning is plain bull

Specifically "Back in the dawn of business computing, programming was done at the machine level, where ones and zeros spoke directly to the hardware.

In essence, no two computers were exactly alike, and that limited the business computing club to an extremely knowledgeable few. " is just plain WRONG.

IBM simply decided to consolidate several lines of computers into a single line. That would be more like Intel merging the x386 and Itanium into a single chip that ran neither x386 code nor Itanium code directly but would run either under an emulator.

The success of the 360 depended far more on marketing chutzpah more than it did on anything revolutionary about it's design though so your chutzpah designation for the story is appropriate.

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You need a new picture...

...the driver's license one is not happening.

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Less broad, more specific

The change in the security market reflects the emerging maturity of the security market. Businesses have a better knowledge grip on what they need and what they don't, which will lead to the search for the "right" security product. The needs of a small business will not be the same as a large enterprise - thus the market responds with niche products, as it should. Small businesses will be looking for products that not only fit their budgets but deliver specifically the level of security they are calling for: http://www.essentialsecurity.com/smallbusiness.htm