On September 10, 2007 01:31 am Andy Fiddaman wrote:
> ; 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!

Kaspersky AV is cheap, if you just use their daemon scanner and not their 
SMTP proxy scanner.  That way, there's no per-account licensing to worry 
about.

> 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.

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