Re: Trend too expensive - what is a good replacement?
- From: "Tony Vrolyk" <tvrolyk at mlhg dot net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:45:46 -0500
Ya know, I should've known better than to trust the sales guy at the vendor
we originally purchased from. That particular sales guy is kinda lazy and
apparently rather than give me the renewal price he just rattled off the new
price - too much work for a sale under $10,000 for him (greedy)
I still think I might consider going to GFI for the mail protection.
MailEssentials offers spam protection beyond what Trend offers - beyesian
scannion, DNS blacklists, ORDB lists etc.
I will also check out AVG and CA. Thanks for the advice.
Tony
"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23AZYRL0eFHA.1448@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I'm curious about the $2300 price tag for 50 users. Trend's web site says
> you can buy a 50 user CSM for SMB package for $2225 (brand new package,
> not a renewal) directly from their web site. These above figures are in
> US currency.
> http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry17c?SP=10007&PN=5&CID=0&SID=16269&PID=620513&DSP=&CUR=840&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=0
>
> I'm wondering if someone quoted you a renewal license price or a new
> package price? Or maybe they weren't quoting the CSM for SMB renewal
> licenses? Something doesn't smell right.
>
> OK... I just checked with Trend. Their US price for a 50 license
> renewal of CSM for SMB is: $13.35 each (or $667.50 for 50 licenses).
>
> Part: Renewal License Qty. 50
> PN: CMRN0013
>
> --
> Merv Porter [SBS MVP]
> ===================================
> "Tony Vrolyk" <donotask@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:O8CaBOseFHA.2124@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I am curious if anyone else has run into the new Trend Micro CSM for SMB.
>>We previously renews around $600 for 50 workstations and now they want
>>about $2300. This prompted me to start checking out other solutions. I did
>>look in old posts but they seem to all be from before Trend raised their
>>prices - back when it was a good deal.
>>
>> I am not considering Norton because of previous experience - granted it
>> was with older products but everytime I see a Norton app it seems they
>> want to be everything to everyone and the client is loaded down with too
>> many apps and caused problems with other apps.
>>
>> We had previously used McAfee ASAP but that caused printing problems and
>> each client updated from the internet on it's own rather then from a
>> server on the LAN. Also didn't like that there was no way to install it
>> except from the internet. So I am hesitant on McAfee but open if it seems
>> to offer what I need at a reasonable cost and reasonable administration.
>>
>> I am experimenting with GFI MailEssentials and MailSecurity for antivirus
>> and spam blocking at the server but I am having a hard time finding
>> desktop protection I like. I would love to find antivirus and
>> anti-spyware in one app but that doesn't seem to exist. Even if they are
>> from the same vendor they still are separate apps. I am a minimalist when
>> it comes to installing stuff on desktops and I like things to be as
>> efficient as possible. So I would love some recomendations if you have
>> them. I am not set on GFI for the above but I do like them so far -
>> especially the Beyesian scanning on the MailEssentials.
>>
>> My requirments are as follows:
>>> Compatible withe SBS 2000 and SBS 2003 (will be upgrading in Oct this
>>> year)
>>> All together must provide anti-virus, anti-spam and anti-spyware.
>>> All mail protection (virus and spam) must be at the server and integrate
>>> with Exchange
>>> Optional Mail protection at the client for POP3 clients is preferred
>>> Desktop protection (virus and spyware) must be installed and managed
>>> from the LAN with a single server that updates itself and then updates
>>> the clients
>>> Must be able to install desktop protection even if the client doesn't
>>> authenticate to the SBS server (other clients in the same subnet but
>>> logging into a different server)
>>> Desktop software must be as small and efficient as possible - must not
>>> significantly increase startup time or slow down the machine during
>>> normal usage.
>>> Must be able to manage client's permissions - i.e. prevent
>>> unloading/disabling/configuring of client software.
>>
>> Hope that is clear enough and I look forward to hearing from you all.
>> Tony Vrolyk
>>
>>
>
>
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