CheckPoint Firewall-1 and Script Kiddis

Last week I've received a funny letter @work.....
CheckPoint FireWall-1 is the solution for officials and organizations with small security-requirements. Only 1-2 points on the 0-10 list.... and every semi-prof hacker AND script kiddis can go through checkpoint into the local network....
This statement have made an IT-expert and he recommend no firewall and on every machine the user must start with a knoppix-cd and then connect to the internet in the box....
I work with CheckPoint since 2001 @work and @home I have a safe@office-solution appliance with CheckPoint-technology. I think no firewall can realize 100% security but CheckPoint is definitly not a low-security solution... It's a scalabiltiy solution and with the correct configuration it's one of the leader in the security-area....
But it's funny to read this letter with no content but a lot of wrong information... I'll answer with facts because some people have read this letter......and this is like some newspaper, the big headline, no true but someone believe this.....

-take care

Rave 8

I found an interesting information about Rave (Monday, 7. Mai 2007 18:26) in the nevrona-newsgroups from Jim Gunkel, the CEO of Nevrona Designs:

"We're all alive and healthy here working on Rave Reports 8 which is shaping
up to be one of our biggest releases in a long time. Some of the new
features include docking and restructuring of the tool windows within the
designer, band logic revamp and an exciting new template system integrated
with a new 2-way report wizard.

More details on these and the other new things will follow as we get closer
to Rave Reports 8 release. We're not giving out any timeframes yet but stay
posted (I can tell you that anyone that orders Rave 7 now will get a free
update to Rave 8 when it's released)."

great news !

new Client/Server-Application in 2007 with .net or win32 ?

Well, is this a question in 2007 with the stable .net version 2 (perhaps 3.5 in the next month)??? Microsoft latest Win32-development is with VB6 very very old and all the newer visual studio version creates .net-application in Basic, C# and so on....
And CodeGear create a Delphi-Version in the year 2007 with Vista-support, but for Win32....

I remember the blog from holger about managed code or not on this blog Managed code is too slow... yeah, right... and the following discussion ...

I have a new project this month, and surprise surprise, a database-application with Oracle in the background.
I've moved all my application since last september from Delphi 7 to Delphi2006.win32 and I'm happy about the IDE-feature and the speed. I think it's really fast and we can compare it absolutely with Delphi7. With the BDS I have the choice to work on both world... but last weekend I made the decision: the project will be a Win32-application. I admit that I haven't found anything in the .net-framework that make the decision to .net ...
Remember, this is "only" a c/s-application, no 3-tier, webapplication or other remote dataconnection.....
I started a new Win32-project with the DOA-components from allroundautomations, the QuantumGrid v5 from DevExpress and Nevrona Rave Reports, of course.

Perhaps someone can give me a hint why this is the wrong decision for a new application in the year 2007.......
In the meantime I will develop and have finish my database-modelling (Tips for Datamodelling).... and learn at the moment the power of Castalia 5.1 for my daily work. In this tool there are really cool and powerful features included, congrat Jacob, great job!

the only point for .net is at the moment ECO, but I admit that I haven't found the door to go into this new house and use this Framework in my BDS2006.... Sometimes I will read the ECOBook from Alois and hope to realize the help of ECO to do my job better and faster.... but you know: things.take.time.

-take care