Symantec firewalls

[Gabriel George POPA]

           Hello,

  I've heard a lot about those Symantec firewall machines (that cost 
something around 15000$-30000$). In fact I don't know many details, just 
that customers are pleased to give the money and say that they're safe 
behing that Symantec machine. Of course, I encountered people that were 
very happy with these systems, but I think they never had a major attack 
or something. Just out of curiosity, can OpenBSD do what Symantec does? 
Is Symantec's encryption better than that included in OpenBSD (I must 
mention that I live in Europe, maybe US export laws apply)? Does 
Symantec worth all this money?
  On the other hand, I was thinking that maybe, just maybe, Symantec 
uses a modified version of OpenSSL on these machines. Is this possible?

                                                                                                                           
Thanks a lot,
                                                                                                                                     
George POPA