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[Julian Field]

At 06:02 13/09/2002, you wrote:
>There must be something wrong. In India, 10U SAVI cots US $220 equiv.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the price is different in different
countries.

The short answer to the original question is that they are all expensive
except F-Prot which only charges per server and not per user.


>Mohan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>Behalf Of Daniel Tan
>Sent: 13 September 2002 10:09
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject:
>
>
>sophos is chargin around US$750 for just the sophos anti-virus from a local
>company in my country..with 10 licenses which i don't need...likewise
>everyone only needs the server license...
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "S Mohan" <smohan at VSNL.COM>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 12:30 PM
>
>
>We have had a few threads on this and recently someone was talking of Sophos
>being expensive. Sophos licences SAVI for use. I believe we need to licence
>out as many users of SAVI as mailbags or email ids for which mail is
>scanned. They do not seem to have a server licence for a command line
>version. F-Prot seems to be selling a server licence at $300.
>
>Can some one throw light on the licence and cost implications of various
>scanners when used in conjunction with MailScanner please?
>
>Mohan

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