[OTish] Sophos & licensing

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Mar 18 13:55:24 GMT 2003


At 12:26 18/03/2003, you wrote:
>I'm just after talking with the Sophos distributor for Ireland as I'm
>looking to renew some savi licenses that I have.
>I've now been told that the license is based on the number of users that
>will benefit from the product as opposed to the number of users that use it.
>Can anybody shed a bit of light on this ?

Just count the number of people inside your site. It's them who you are
(primarily) protecting.

>By this logic if someone inside sends an infected mail to 1000 people
>outside the organisation and my mailscanner grabs it 1000 people have
>benefited.
>Or if I had a webserver that ran icheckd, theoretically every user that
>visits the website benefits.
>
>Is this the new Sophos stance ?
>Start slower and license you to infinity.
>If so I'll be moving to a different engine.
>
>Great product btw Julian, it's made my life a lot easier.
>
>Uly

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