Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:00:07 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Dinesh Nair" <dinesh@alphaque.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Nessus no longer open source Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEJBFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <434B6B11.8010009@alphaque.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Dinesh Nair [mailto:dinesh@alphaque.com] >Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:35 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Nessus no longer open source > > > >On 10/07/05 03:57 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following: >> would have been prevented from using it. Almost certainly >the research >> in the >> vulnerabilities that go into Nessus 3 will trickle into Nessus 2 >> eventually. So > >however given that the nessus author(s) said that one main >reason was the >lack of contributions from the community, who is going to maintain the >nessus 2 codebase and plugins ? > The authors, of course. Stand the problem on it's head. Where are the Nessus people going to find customers for Nessus 3? From Nessus 2 users. If they let the Nessus 2 codebase go to pot then people will stop using it, and they lose a valuable source of sales leads. Talk to the marketing manager of whatever company you work for and ask them how much it costs to market and advertise your product. The Nessus company has a perfect advertising venue available with Nessus 2 it is cheaper for them to keep it maintained in order to get customers than to try to launch and ad campaign. The only problem right now that Nessus has is that Nessus 3 is new, so it's not yet differentiated enough from Nessus 2 for people to be convinced to pay the money for it. But as time passes and they keep working on Nessus 3 that will change. Look at the Sendmail Inc. model, it is -very- successful. Ted
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