[SAGE] Websense implementations on Linux

[Brian Landers <brian+usenix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

The company I work for is in the midst of planning a fairly-large (10+  
server) rollout of Websense Security Suite.  One of the big open  
questions in the design process is Win32 vs. *nix for the underlying  
server OS.  We've got a pretty good handle on the technical factors in  
this decision, but the leadership folks are wondering about other  
companies that have implemented Websense on *nix.

Our Websense AE and his team don't seem to have any customers they can  
name that have implemented on Linux or Solaris (not counting appliance- 
based implementations such as Bluecoat or Crossbeam).  They're all  
Windows-based.  I have to figure there are non-Windows implementations  
out there, or Websense wouldn't spend engineering resources providing  
Linux and Solaris versions.

Does anyone on this list have experience with running Websense on  
Linux or Solaris? My preference is to not bring another 10+ Windows  
boxes into our environment to manage, but I need some ammunition to  
reassure the bosses.

Thanks much in advance.