[THIN] Re: OT: Question for Trend A/V users
- From: "Hill, Brian (NTB)" <emi2@xxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:12:18 -0400
I was in a similar situation before. Our company headquarters (previous
company) were located in the UK. They had purchased enough McAfee seats
for the entire company, so we basically got McAfee for free. Even when
getting the product for free, we couldn't make a business case to use
McAfee, and still purchased Trend to replace it. I really can't find
anything nice to say about the McAfee AV product. It's let us down too
many times, and it doesn't even compare to Trend when it comes to
performance, effectiveness, or manageability.
Brian
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Evan Mann
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 2:13 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Question for Trend A/V users
I'm in a competitive upgrade situation, and McAfee is half the cost.
For outright licenses, I'd assume it would be similar. The price levels
only change by $1-2/seat at the 1001+ level. This is pricing from
Insight
McAfee ePO+VirusScan (no antispyware or exchange) - 501+ = 6.33/seat
Trend OfficeScan Client/Server Edition (includes control manager basic,
no damage cleanup) - 501+ = $12.24/seat
Infact, for Trend OfficeScan Client/Server/Messaging (same as above, add
Exchange product) it's $23/seat for 501+ and for less then that,
$19.28/seat I can get McAfee ePO+VirusScan+Antispyware+Groupshield.
I guess it's possible McAfee is just undercutting everyone drastically
on a competitive upgrade price.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jim Kenzig Kenzig.com
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 2:08 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Question for Trend A/V users
Trend is also far less expensive per user.
Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Trying to find out how people have deployed OfficeScan to a
large office area network. I'm going to buy McAfee or Trend, so far
McAfee is in my favor because of agent based methods I have 80 offices,
1200 users (alwyas expanding) with Symantec Enterprise A/V. They deploy
as follows: 1 master server for everything, sub servers can be deployed
at other sites so clients can pull updates from those servers, instead
of across WAN links to the master server.
Both Trend and McAfee seem to have similar approaches in setup.
1 master server with options for deployment poitns, which is basically
a location the masrter server updates, then you set clients to those
deployment points to get their updates. I do not want clients all
updating to my master server for bandwidth issues.
My trend SE recommended I pout an officescan server in every
site, instead of 1 officescan server, with 80 deployment points. Some
of the functionality of OfficeScan server requires MSDE and/orSQL, which
I'm not deloying at every site. So when I got off the call with the SE,
my interest in trend dwindled some.
I've talked to 1 person on the list who has around 1200 users
per server (said trend recommends 1000 max). He does all deployments
from that 1 PC, so it's not exactly how I plan to operate, but it shows
me the SE I spoke with at Trend's recommendation wasn't exactly
necessary.
I'm debating towards Trend or McAfee+ePO, and so far McAfee is
on top becaue ePO is agent based which assists greatly in updating.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Foote, Eric
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 11:54 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Question for Trend A/V users
We have over 8,000 users on the whole Trend Suite.
Send me a note off list with any specific questions that you
have.
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Evan Mann
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 11:03 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] OT: Question for Trend A/V users
Do any of the people on the list use Trend OfficeScan on
client and/or server in a wide area deployment across many offices? I'm
trying to get some real world info on large deployments.
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