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SSH-Based Solutions - Looking for Industry Proof?

Posted by Cliff on from the open-source-is-everywhere-so-use-it dept.

mcwop asks: "My company's IT department is trying to set up secure FTP with a vendor. It would be set up on a Sun box (not running Solaris 9). I emailed suggesting they look at OpenSSH. The response I received stated that they don't like to use freeware, but only consider industry proven and supported software. I have found one commercial version at SSH. What other commercial versions are out there (I know Solaris 9 comes with SSH)? But more importantly, what are some commercial successes? What large organizations are implementing SSH?"

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  1. Confused by awgy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Perhaps I'm confused, but isn't OpenSSH a rather well-proven program?

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  2. OpenSSH by scorpioX · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mac OS X (and X Server) ship with OpenSSH. Those are considered commercial OS's. I bet Solaris 9's SSH is also OpenSSH (don't know for sure though). Sounds like your managers have their heads where the sun doesn't shine.

  3. Did you think at all? by SquadBoy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.openssh.org/users.html

    Also Nokia's IPSO (on their Checkpoint based firewalls uses openssh.
    As you can see Sun uses it. Good enough. I thought so.

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  4. Been there, done that by gr8fulnded · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I had the exact same situation about 6 months ago. I won, sorta. I simply said our industry is going through hard times right now and using OpenSSH will save your $500k in licensing fees.

    We ended up compromising. They wanted vendor software, I wanted free. For the mission critical systems, we chose FSecure (fsecure.com) and for the high-importance and below (to include desktops), we went with OpenSSH.

    Worked out well. With FSecure we also purchased Windows clients for the developers and if anything ever happened, they had the support they were looking for the vendor software. With everything else, OpenSSH did the job along with PuTTY on the peasants computers.