The 2 yr agreement with Secure Computing SmartFilter will be expiring the end of June. Currently I have 7 districts with about 2200 workstations licensed. If we renew the subscription before March 20th we can get a three year agreement for the price of a two year agreement.
The cost would be $9.15/workstation. If we can get above 5000 workstations then the cost would drop to $8.00/workstation. The first agreement was negotiated at a state level and the company gave us their highest quantity price break. The districts in Arrowhead AEA were the only districts to participate in the state. This accounts for a significant portion of the price increase. For more information on SmartFilter visit http://www.securecomputing.com/index.cfm?skey=85 SmartFilter is a software based filter that will run on several different platforms. Our license agreement allows an unlimited number of servers to run SmartFilter to serve the number of licensed workstations. This means that each district can setup their own filter server. I will be more than happy to answer any technical questions about the product via phone or email. If you are using the Sonicwall for filtering and have been disappointed in its performance you may want to look at this product as well. Secure Computing as also purchased N2H2. If your district currently is using the BESS filter for N2H2 the above pricing will also cover that product. Although I am unsure about the future of the BESS product. Please contact me if you have any questions. _____________________________________________________________________ Scott Fosseen - Systems Engineer -Prairie Lakes AEA http://fosseen.us/scott _____________________________________________________________________ You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky - Wayne Gretzky _____________________________________________________________________ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------
