[Mimedefang] Cost of NAI

[Peter P. Benac]

The lady I argue with more then an hour at NAI made it very clear to me if
the SERVER and only the server is calling uvscan it was on ONE License.  Now
if any of the folks who have shell accounts to my systems run uvscan on
files then that is one license per logged in user.

No shell accounts on my mail servers except mine.  Only the user that
MIMEDefang runs as is calling uvscan... One license.

Regards,
Pete


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com 
> [mailto:mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf 
> Of Kris Deugau
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 17:41
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Cost of NAI
> 
> 
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > -ray wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> > You are totally correct in this. Running such a server 
> product implies 
> > that you have to pay per user,
> 
> Not necessarily.  When I set up the filter server here, my 
> boss found RAV and paid for a single-server license.  Their 
> license was an odd combination of per-server and per-domain 
> at the time, but no per-user charges.  (Multiprocessor 
> servers cost more;  multiple domains cost more;  multiple 
> *servers* cost more.  More users just means you need a bigger 
> server.  <g>)
> 
> This is a small installation (<1K filtered accounts), but I 
> don't recall seeing anything in the information we got from 
> RAV that indicated any limitations in that respect.
> 
> -kgd
> -- 
> <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it 
> responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure 
> out where in my apartment it is. 
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