The thing that people dont realize how many federal and military branches use Check Point products throughout their networks. They also use Check Point Integrity as their desktop soloutions(Integrity came from the Zone Labs Acquisition). 100% of Fortune 100 companies use Check Point as well as 90% of the Fortune 500 companies. So I don't see what the issue is, since most of the government agencies and contractors use Check Point. Also, Sourcefire isnt just Snort, they have an enterprise version which adds onto the snort engine and sells to enterprises for a pretty penny.

I do not see what the issue is since the Snort engine is open source, and Check Point already has an in depth knowledge of the Sourcefire product. Either way its ridiculous to try to veto this acquisition.