There's a lot of them - most of the good commercial ones have been snapped up by a major vendor of some kind or another - Cisco, Juniper, Foundry/Brocade, Symantec, etc. etc. But it was a very healthy startup space, say, 5-8 years ago. Then, as with all hot areas, the consolidation started. Thanks, Matt -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Goulet, Richard Sent: Wed 6/10/2009 4:03 PM To: mkb125@xxxxxxxxx; Niall Litchfield Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Open Source Database Questions Humm, a Google search points only to Snort and Surfnet. Interesting. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA PAREXEL International ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of mkb Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:55 PM To: Niall Litchfield Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Open Source Database Questions ________________________________ From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> To: mkb125@xxxxxxxxx Cc: ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 6:08:57 PM Subject: Re: Open Source Database Questions IDS? Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Intrusion detection system vendors such NetContinuum, ForeScout, ArcSight, and TopLayer. -- mohammed