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<P><FONT size=2>---------------------------------------------<BR>Phil
Randal<BR>Network Engineer<BR>Herefordshire Council<BR>Hereford, UK </FONT></P>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> MailScanner mailing list
[mailto:MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Limmer,
Jim<BR><B>Sent:</B> 01 March 2004 21:35<BR><B>To:</B>
MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<BR><B>Subject:</B> Justification for
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2> My company has budgeted a good amount of
money for a spam/virus filtering email gateway, similar to what I can
accomplish with mailscanner. We've tested a few commercial products, none to
our satisfaction. While we are meeting with their sales staff I typically jot
down each application they are using. It's amazing the amount of money some of
these vendors are charging for what is 99% open source software. Typically
these boxes are running redhat, postfix, sa, razor... the list goes on. The only
proprietary software I see on these boxes are their web gui front ends, which
are typically attractive, but IMHO - useless.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway, the question was put to me today - how can
you justify wanting to spend valuable man hours building and configuring our
own system based on open source, when we've already budgeted enough money to
cover a commercial solution?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>While the simple answers are the ones that make
sense to us technological people</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>1> open source is good.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>2> personal satisfaction of putting your own system
together</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>3> It's just darn cool &
techo-geeky.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unfortunatley, those answers arent going to satisfy
the higher ups.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone seen any good articles, or have any comment
that may help me put together a good answer to this?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Jim</FONT> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>