; 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.
We currently use F-Prot, Sophos and ClamAV in parallel and, with our volume, the contribution of F-Prot to the cost is almost negligible. In real terms ClamAV does actually cost us more overall but it's well worth it! F-Prot's licence costs are among the cheapest in the industry, just try looking at the cost of Sophos, McAfee or Kaspersky licences! ClamAV's price point is far better of course.. and it's performance in terms of detection rates far outstrips most of the competition. We really only have the commercial scanners in there because customers want to see them for confidence and that may well change in the future thanks to Sourcefire. A. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
