F-prot revisited

[Alan Fiebig]

Sorry about the delay in responding, been busy lately :)

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>On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Alan Fiebig wrote:
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>> While F-Prot's $29 Linux workstation version is all you technically need
>> to run with MailScanner, per F-Prot, you would be in violation of their
>> license. Their expensive 'per user' mail server version contains a whole

>On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Steffan replied back:
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>But they don't sell the command line version for servers ! They just sell
>bigger products - and we don't need that, we use MailScanner.

I know, that is my entire point. They only sell the stand alone command line scanner for workstations.

To comply with the F-Prot license, you have to buy the big mail server product, which is expensive due to it being priced per mailbox. Then, after buying the big package, you end up only using a tiny portion of it, the command line scanner. All the rest of the product was waisted since you don't need it for MailScanner.

If you were to buy the inexpensive, $29 workstation command line scanner, it would work perfectly with MailScanner. But then you would be in violation of F-Prot's license.

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>Even on the CA page, I didn't see a final price for the product I need,
>but maybe at that time I was already too tired after trying to find a
>price.

That's because you don't buy it from CA, you buy it from a reseller.
In my earlier post, I mentioned that the lowest price for e-Trust is $129 for a 5 node license.
The price has now come down a bit. You can find it at CDW for example:
   http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=475675

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>On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, G. Armour Van Horn replied back:
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>Based on your comments, I went looking for the product. I found
>http://www.my-etrust.com/ and browsed around a bit, even
>asked "Sammy" about Linux, but didn't see a trace of anything but
>Windows software. If I buy the five-pack, is there a Linux version
>in there somewhere, or can you post a URL that gets to the Linux version?

In the 5 node license I mentioned, which now sells for $109 from CDW, you get 11 different versions included:

  1) Windows - Win95 on up, workstations and servers
  2) Linux
  3) Exchange
  4) Lotus Notes/Domino
  5) Stand alone firewall
  6) PocketPC PDA
  7) Palm PDA
  8) Macintosh
  9) Proxy servers - Microsoft and Apache
 10) Novell servers
 11) Sun Solaris

Use as many or as few of the versions as you wish on up to 5 hosts, all for $109.

-Alan