Our firewall guy thinks Palo Alto firewalls are really good and I don't dispute that they are. But I may just show him this tomorrow morning as, another perspective never hurts.
Cisco is the worst by far, the Fortinet are not fun to use but have an incredible $/performance ratio, and the Palo Alto ones are by far the most expensive but also the most enjoyable to use.
They're certainly not without their faults, and we've had issues with them that took time to remedy, but I wouldn't trade them for anything else I've seen so far from competitors.
If so, I have bad news for your license compliance...
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/product-selection
https://www.fortinet.com/products/product-compare?cat=ngfw
And you can get pricing from any VARs website such as CDW.com
Good try though.
(I don't subscribe to the sub nor have I posted anything in it. I do read it from time to time and find the comments alright from an end-user (ie. sysadmin) point of view.)
There is another guy in this thread who gives a good review saying Checkpoint got good in response to competition. Forti is the value option. And, FTD is looked down upon while ASA has some niches. So, PAN, Checkpoint, and Fortinet appears to be the leaders.