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Legacy Connectivity: Page 3 of 4

We didn't mean it, of course. The words just fit the tune. But boy were they mad.

We first wrote about the Wheel Group in 1996 (yes, 1996!) in a cover story on vulnerability assessment.

A bunch of ex-Air Force security geeks had an amazing product and consultancy, which Cisco gobbled up, spurring the behemoth into the security market and still serving as the basis for some Cisco technology. Meanwhile, some members of the Wheel Group started SecureLogix, the recipient of our 2003 Product of the Year award.

The CEO of a new vulnerability-assessment vendor, Qualys (reported on in our June 26 cover story), is Philippe Courtot. You may remember him as founder of the world's best-ever e-mail product, cc:Mail, which I used when I worked at Lockheed Martin, known then as Martin Marietta.

Today, though, as a tribute to legacy vendors, I'm deciding between PROFS and All-in-One.