Go CCIE Go!! - A Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert

After reading along all day at what people had to say about the ASA vs Checkpoint, If I was a complete novice that went exclusively on what was said in this forum, I think I might go with the ASA?? There is a plenty said on the checkpoint side about licensing, hardware, patching problems, more expensive, not great support from the manufacturers, and all that was said about the ASA is that does not have a fantastic enterprise management solution, oh and the ASA vpn solution is rock solid??? I think from my own experience the vast majority of people are put off the ASA because of the old PIX, its command line and horrible GUI (PDM), which the ASA have now revamped and replaced, making it just as easy as the Checkpoint to configure. ...