[SSLy]

Well, I've seen appliances over $50k a piece ( you need at least two to be useful.) So systems like that are still here.

[tyingq]

Right, because they aren't currently commodity items. Wouldn't take much, for example, though, to get haproxy to a state where it starts eating F5 lab's lunch. A nicer ui, etc.

It took Linux and commodity servers a while to kill the $100k+/each proprietary unix server market.