Colp, I am very sorry to hear that you have had issues with the 2000 series management plane performance. We have definitely grown our feature set and as we grow our feature set we have grown our QA and testing infrastructure. We are continually working to improve our testing methodology and process. That said, unfortunately, you currently have the our slowest management plane firewalls. The 2000 series firewalls were designed years ago and we have heard the complaint about management performance. We have been working hard on the software side to improve the commit time and navigation of the user interface. The 5.0 release had many of these improvements, but to see major differences the hardware needed to get some horsepower. The 3000 series mid range firewalls have approximately 400% more RAM and CPU performance as the 2000. We are seeing commit times go down from many minutes to less than a minute. The overall management experience is much improved. I know that not everyone can upgrade the hardware because of budgets, but before you change vendors, please know that we are listening and working on solutions to your issues. I continue to put a major effort into improving and optimizing the software. However, if it is a possible for your organization, please evaluate one of our 3000 series. I think you will find that we are making strides on the management performance side. Thank you
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