McAfee to acquire Secure Computing Corporation

I guess I've really been under a rock lately, but I just became aware of the news that Secure Computing Corporation is about to be acquired by McAfee. The news release can be found here.

This is newsworthy to me because I cut my firewall teeth on Secure Computing's SideWinder 5.2.x firewall and became quite competent with the SideWinder G2 and SideWinder 7 firewalls, so I have a slight bias when it comes to Secure Computing's proxy firewalls.

This news is slightly disconcerting because Secure Computing's firewalls will no doubt be bundled with McAfee's other products and the tight (read secure) product will suffer for it.

I understand that this is a business decision and since I no longer actively support Secure Computing firewalls, I shall take a wait and see approach.