Res wrote: > On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> F-PROT Antivirus for Solaris Mail Servers >> Number of Users Annual license fee >> 1-10 US$ 130 >> 11-24 US$ 250 >> 25-49 US$ 399 >> 50-99 US$ 499 >> 100-199 US$ 799 >> 200-299 US$ 1099 >> >> dp > > I wont shock you with what the cost is for 700K users :) > clamd is fast enough for secondary MX's though. > > F-prots BS licensing is one reason we are trying to move away from it, but > it's hard when nothing comes close to it in speed, its still cheaper with > the license (only just) then buying extra hardware to further distribute > the load more than we do now, if we can get HP to come to a good deal that > makes it even equal the cost, we'll dump f-prot on principle.
Seems like a rack (or more) of blades running OpenSolaris or Linux fronted with a BigIP queue could handle the load and give you some decent fault tolerance for what some of those license costs come to. I have to handle only a million messages/week so don't have a load problem with Clam, but I'll take cheap fast hardware over recurring license costs any time I can. dp _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
