Double check that "can't sign multiyear" contracts with more senior purchasing people at the agency. Last State agency I worked at gave me the same thing but there was "work arounds" but they depended on pricing and wording of the contracts.
Jon On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Ray <rz...@qwest.net> wrote: > Ok. The Kaspersky quote so far has been quite excellent. Unfortunately > this state agency can’t sign more than year to year contracts, so we lose > out on some multi-year deals. > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Saturday, April 03, 2010 2:20 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Enterprise Anti-Virus > > > > Kaspersky, Trend and something else I can't recall. It was mainly > price-based, and I'd heard vast amounts of good things about it from other > admins. Compared to SAV, the footprint of a scan alone made us think it was > fab. > > On 2 April 2010 02:43, Ray <rz...@qwest.net> wrote: > > Why did you recommend Vipre over which platforms? > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, April 01, 2010 2:41 PM > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Enterprise Anti-Virus > > > > I recommended Vipre over all the other options when Symantec came up for > renewal. I think I am still flavour of the month, financially and > technically :-) > > On 1 April 2010 21:58, Ray <rz...@qwest.net> wrote: > > I know this has been discussed many times in the past, but I'm going to ask > again. Our McAfee contract is nearing renewal and we're looking for > alternatives. We have about 4,000 desktops in 20 remote sites. We'd love > the flexibility of managing everything from centralized console, and > perhaps > even allowing the local sites on-site staff to have access to their own > machines. Not all our pipes are that great, so a distributed model for > .dat > updates would be ideal. > > We are currently evaluating Vipre. Last year we looked at and actually > chose > to buy Nod32, but, well, long story, and it wasn't the vendors fault. > > We're also looking at Trend and Sophos. > > Any feedback on what you have now and why you chose it or are dumping it > would be great. > > Thanks, > > Ray > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
