There were other considerations I didn't even mention for the commercial products, like Postini couldn't even be used in my scenario because they only support 2 operating systems (RH 8 & 9 and solaris). FrontBridge is a service so it means mail has to be directed offsite, that could involve many hours of labour, some domains would want the service, some users of a domain would also want it others wouldn't so now we would be splitting, I could see that to be a problem. It could be something that would cost as much as SpamAssassin to set up and administer.
The author says that ProofPoint "is more demanding technically to install and configure, but the companies superb tech support...." That kind of statement always scares me off. If tech support is required something is wrong, the software is inflexible and has too many dependants, the documentation is lacking, or its just plain buggy.
I have been around for a lot of years and have never had "tech support" for a product offer me a solution to a problem I have experienced, in fact if I am at a point where I need help having exhausted all other avenues I know I'm up the creek.....
So for all intents that only leaves BrightMail as something that may be a viable alternate to SA. Obviously I would test the totally free software first, opposed to filling out a "request for info" form for a free download. When I did test SA it performed better than what I expected, so why look any further.
Bill wrote:
And now for the real world.....
only 50 or less users:
Brightmail $ 2,998 for 2 years FrontBridge $ 2,700 for 2 years Postini $ 2,700 for 2 years ProofPoint $ 2,000 for 2 years SpamAssassin $ 3,100 for 2 years
That assumes that the small company does not have a part time IT person working for a typical $20-$25 /hour and doing these things as part of their normal duties. I have found that a large percentage of <50 employee companies can handle all their own IT duties with just an occasional billable support call. In this part of the USA there are many many out of work IT people so per call support is dirt cheap. $35/hour is about all you can get.
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