Does Checkpoint buying Nokia appliances hurt Sourcefire?

As they indicated several months ago, Nokia is getting out of the security appliance business.  Today it was announced that Checkpoint is buying Nokia's security appliance business for an undisclosed sum. Nokia had a lot of boxes with Checkpoint firewalls on them, so this seems to make a lot of sense.

Recently though Nokia started selling other apps on their appliances, including Sourefire appliacations. I would assume these are competitive with Checkpoint and this will be the end of Sourcefire and other vendors selling their apps on Nokia appliances.  In the long run Checkpoint may actually decrease the value of the Nokia appliance business, but they may not care.

 

PS - I broke my finger playing basketball last week and typing is very hard. don't look for a lot of posts from me and certainly not any very long ones for a while!

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