IPSec gateway from the perspective of manufacturers, service providers and network administrators need to be consistent with the standard IPSec, they often self-checking, to ensure interoperability. In the highly competitive market, manufacturers can not afford to be customers to check the consequences of the error. In addition to ensuring interoperability, the conformance testing companies also offer significant benefits are often overlooked. Conformance testing to ensure product quality not only, but also accelerates the product development - in the development cycle that a program error, or correct a design counter, which ultimately benefits the product will have a significant impact. For service providers and network administrators, multi-vendor environment is a reality, if not the implementation of standards-based, this reality can not be managed. Since they also regularly upgrade their IPSec VPN, so make sure these upgrades will not break existing services to become very important. Although not all of the conformance requirements are for IPSec, but will be added to the network IPSec conformance testing increases the complexity and necessity.
Oracle in the April 18 price of $ 9.50 per share earned in the transaction with the Sun and Suns computer assets to win, so Oracle is among the shrinking of the server market, direct competition with IBM and HP. Crown Pacific Securities analyst Brendan - Barnicle said that Oracle will seek to sell the final part of the hardware business. Barnicle said: "The hardware and core software business compared to less attractive, is a low-margin business." Oracle CEO Larry - Ellison said this month that he plans to keep the computer business, through better integration of hardware and applications to improve profit. He cited in a paper with huge profits Apple and Cisco hardware instance. Customers during the economic downturn due to reduced equipment spending, accounting for more than half of Suns server sales revenue fell by 26%. According to informed sources disclosed, IBM and HP are also involved in bidding for Sun. According to documents submitted Sun, Sun recognized the other two companies conducted a due diligence on the Sun, but did not name the two companies said. Sun just two companies are called "A Party" and "B side."