It's 2008! Welcome to the future, everyone. We made it again, but somehow the clocks are reset, and we have another whole basket of unknowns to conquer out there in the yet-to-be.
All of us, with some exceptions.
Take Aventail (please). This huffy-puffy little VPN vendor, recently purchased by Sonicwall, seems to have run off the tracks a bit as far as customer service/maintenance of their product. Now XX months into OS X 10.5 release, we've still to see any significant movement on their part to release/update their VPN software to run on the new OS.
Yeah yeah, you can say all you want about Macs being a tiny percentage of the total market of PCs (especially in the business world), but the fact is bigger (and otherwise slower-moving) competitors like Cisco and Juniper (why, oh why, didn't we go with Juniper at work? Sigh...) managed to update their VPN client apps for 10.5 BEFORE retail release of the new OS.
I wish I could say with any confidence it was because these two companies "get" why supporting a shining 2-5% group of computing "elite" (snobs) is a good thing for business, but the truth is that this same travesty took place with the Windows Vista release as well, and said operating system was out WELL before the Sonicwall acquisition.
Trolling through Google, it's clear I'm not alone in my thoughts on the matter, but despite the outcry throughout November and December, it's sad that the new year hit, and we're still stuck without an answer - or VPN access without downgrading our systems. Given that new Macs all ship with Leopard, it's just a matter of time before even a penny-pinching IT shop like my own decides to switch out our access appliance, rather than put off the 10.5 upgrade until Aventail comes around.
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