[plug] BugBear Virus

[Craig Ringer]

> Had a look at Sophos information a while ago. From memory, it would have 
> cost us about $1,000 a year, or some simialr amount. Too expensive.

Only $1000? Wow. I priced it about 3 months ago and it wasn't at _all_ 
pretty. They wanted a per-seat licence fee for each machine that'd be 
recieving mail through the mail server, INCLUDING MacOS and linux boxes. 
Not a small fee, either. On top of that, if I wanted host-local scanning 
on the windoze boxes (to protect against USB Data keys, digital cameras, 
and on the older machines floppy discs and CD-ROMs) it was 2x the price 
of the mail scanning licence. When I suggested that perhaps a discount 
should be offered on host-local licences where the machine is already 
covered by a mail scanning licence, they weren't remotely interested.

> We have a server/gateway and about four client PC's; five systems at 
> present.

Lucky bastard ;-/
I have to keep a 30+ machine network of Win95 486s, Win98 P100s and 
newer AMD Durons, and MacOS 7 - 9 boxes alive, plus a SCO OpenServer 
server, and NT server and a linux server. _ugly_ esp since we use the 3 
least reliable client OSs ever written (win95, win98, MacOS 9).

Still, I'm actively looking into a linux deployment here - we're one of 
those outfits where it could be worthwhile and the boss is _very_ 
interested. Key things we're waiting on:
	the mozilla flash bug fix
	OpenOffice 1.1 (or something less crashy, anyway) unless we go StarOffice
	some brave volunteers to test out the new system.

Amazing how a basically ready system can be held up by the simple 
problem that nobody is game to try it out... despite the fact that I 
have to sit users down at my linux box fairly regularly for various 
reasons.

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Craig Ringer
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