thus Damian Menscher spake: > On Fri, 6 May 2005, Nigel Horne wrote: > >>> From: "Damian Menscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 7:05 AM >>> >>>> My silly university spent $0.5M on a commercial product to perform spam >>>> and virus filtering (they have the "if it costs that much, it MUST be >>>> good" mentality). And, just after they put it into production, Sober.P >>>> came out and knocked it flat. After a couple days with multi-hour >>>> email >>>> delays, people are pretty pissed. And I smell opportunity.... >>> >>> >>> Nobody says clamav is for free. >> >> >> I am willing to undercut them and charge you $0.4M for clamAV. > > > I should have mentioned that half the cost was in hardware (some > high-end Sun boxes, I think). And it included spam filtering. But if I > can get them to return it and switch to clamav/spamassassin, I'll do my > best to get a $100k check to each team. > > Damian Menscher
keep the Suns -- there's nothing camparable in the PeeCee sector. was never, and probably will never be. having reliable hardware is a charm :) -- Timo Schoeler | http://macfinity.net/~tis | [EMAIL PROTECTED] //macfinity -- finest IT services | http://macfinity.net Key fingerprint = F844 51BE C22C F6BD 1196 90B2 EF68 C851 6E12 2D8A There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
