Thoughts on Fortinet?

From what I have seen their products seem to be really well engineered and they have a lot of nice to have features. But the sales process with them has been so miserable I’m tempted to look elsewhere. Getting a quote for specifically what I ask for has been next to impossible. A good example is that I’m looking to purchase between 11 and 20 fortigates and for a FortiManager VM was quoted correctly on the initial licensing but on the renewal they quoted 100+ devices and they didn’t even quote me on FortiAnalyzer like I asked for… That and I don’t even think they can explain the difference between the cloud offerings with the 360 protection bundle and going with virtual machines on premise because every time I ask the same question about functionality I get a different answer and that answer usually is not correct per documentation I find after discussions with them…

I really do like the threat protection features I have seen and read about in the documentation but I’m open to other solutions if it’s going to be this difficult to actually get pricing so I can work on actually budgeting everything.

On another note what is everyone’s thoughts on their switches and access points and how they are integrated into the FortiGates? It looks interesting but I have a preference for Junipers switches and unifi seems much more cost effective for wireless. But if you don’t go with their entire product line are you really get your money’s worth with FortiManager?

Also is anyone able to explain the difference between their 360 protection bundle and going with FortiManager and Analyzer as a Virtual Machine?

I would really appreciate all of the help I can get with this.