Followup on July Etrust discussion

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Aug 5 21:20:38 IST 2003


Can someone send me a fully licensed copy of it please, so that I can work
on it?

At 20:56 05/08/2003, you wrote:
>Julian,
>
>Just as a gentle reminder now that your vacation is over, here are a
>couple of posts regarding the good pricing offered to us to use Etrust
>Inoculate. Right before you left on vacation you felt you might work on
>supporting (wrapper and update) for this product. Just wondering if its
>still on track, I'm very interested in this solution. Thanks!
>
>-Alan
>
>##########################
>
>Julian posted on June 30th:
>Have just been sent this, may be interesting reading for many people:
>
> >A CA sales representative called and asked how the evaluation was going. I
> >explained our setup with 15.000+ accounts beeing protected by MailScanner
> >and how we used f-prot today. After a little questions/answers back and
> >forth to make sure he fully understood our setup I asked how much it would
> >be to use CA eTrust along with f-prot.
> >
> >Apparently their licensing policy is a bit different from others. He claimed
> >they aim to take a "large portion" of the market so they are very aggressive
> >with their prices.
> >
> >For us it would be about $55 for two servers. Each "node" is licensed as
> >just a node, they dont care how many it serves (citrix beeing the only
> >exception to the rule)
> >1-99 nodes is approx $28 per node
> >
> >There is no limitation on availability for antivirus signatures either, not
> >in time or product version. It is "for life" he claimed.
>
>
>Julian posted on July 1st:
>Sorry I haven't had a chance to look at this. It's unlikely to happen
>before August now as I am going to have to live without bandwidth for most
>of July (on "holiday", whatever one of those is...). I guess it's a bit
>like being in hospital and hence not having a PC, but there again I had a
>laptop then and our local hospital has networked workstation rooms in it.
>This "holiday" thing is going to be a very strange experience :-)

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