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On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 02:09 PM, K Old wrote:
--On Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:09 PM -0600 "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:My problem is the IT Director loves SA too, but is wanting to purchase one of the Spam Appliances that handles all the updating, etc. for a fee. I can't see that it would be a wise investment as the appliances are at least $1500 and yearly subscriptions are around $150 for spam and virus updates. He's thinking that in addition to not having to add rules for spam slipped through the cracks to SA that the appliance will be more accurate. I think it'll be about the same.
Can anyone offer advice on this? Any good arguments I can bring to the table against getting the appliance?
I'd bet the appliances have linux and SA on them. Find out and then you can say it is the same thing!
Chad
Can-It's appliance uses Linux and an SA-based engine with "custom rules". More common, I'm sure is outright purchase of their software (or rent it with an annual fee). Installation on your own *nix box (Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD) should work as long as it is capable of handling SA, Perl 5.8, milter, sendmail, etc. Probably a little cheaper, but the appliance is probably quicker to drop-in without a lot of install and config of the OS. You should check it out for yourself.
- Alan
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