Symantec Messaging for Exchange 5.03 is also a nice upgrade from 4.61

In general I don't like web based front end programs for programs like this, but thankfully going from 4.6 to 5.03 on a client's machine brought on a welcome change. It looks like 5.x is more .NET based and less klunky-web based. It also seems to fix a lot of issues I had with the older versions, which ultimately led me to recommend other software/hardware when needed. It isn't a CPU hog like the 4.x versions tended to be on a fairly loaded server.

I also was able to log into a Symantec Hardware firewall recently and it looks like they are running a very modified version of Red Hat 7.1 and/or an early version of RH EE. You can pull up lists of RPM packages installed, compile programs with GCC, which I am tempted to do to get 'real' SNMP support and otherwise use it like a full blown Linux box for the most part.

I don't know, I guess I just like being able to SSH into network appliances and keep an eye on them from a familiar bash prompt.