On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:05:27PM -0900, Nick Erickson wrote:
> I was referred to a salesman who quoted me just shy of $600 for one year
> license for Sophos. When I tried Macfee, I just got a run around ending up
> with "we don't sell vscan for personal use".
Ok, this wasn't far off. I spoke with a salescritter today (12/10),
and he flat-out stated they have priced themselves to avoid the home or
very small network market. The reason he gave is sensible--tech support
gets hammered in that environment, and they don't want to dilute their
commercial tech support to be able to give the home market acceptable
support, and don't want to give shoddy home support that would get them a
bad reputation. He was willing to give me some "unofficial" quotations,
valid in the US. (If Sophos is free for personal use in Germany, as is
stated in the AntiVirus mailing lists, he's unaware of it.)
His price for a Linux server + 4 workstations was $480/year. This shoots
Sophos for most non-commercial Linux installations.
On the other hand, the pricing for commercial installations was quite
decent. A hypothetical 1 Linux/Unix server + 60 workstations, for Sweep
only, would cost $945/year. They do contracts in 1, 2, or three-year
agreements; for each additional year they drop the price by 50%.
Pricing for Sweep + InterCheck for the same sized installation would be
around $2350/year.
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