[Mimedefang] Cost of NAI

[Alexander Dalloz]

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Dee Taylor wrote:
> 
> > This is true for the Enterprise edition. However, if you only run 
> > uvscan on your mail server, as we do, you can buy the much cheaper 
> > version  ( uvscan command-line for UNIX) for around $17.00. After 
> > receiving your License Grant you can register with NAI and download 
> > the Tar file.
> 
> I would suspect that each account on your mail server counts 
> as a "user". 
> So just buying the cheaper version and using it to protect 
> all the users 
> on your mail server is probably a violation of the NAI license.
> 
> Symantec was going to get me a copy of their Solaris 
> anti-virus pretty cheaply ($100 or so...).  But when they 
> learned it was for a server that 15,000 students accessed, 
> then the price jumped to over $10,000... for the same damn product.
> 
> ray

Ray!

You are totally correct in this. Running such a server product implies that
you have to pay per user, a user is each local mail recipient.

Alexander


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