I am not going to suggest what to buy but I will tell you YOU MUST HAVE A FULL COPY OF SQL for ForeFront to work. Make no mistakes about that. I got burned bad by that "little" fact. I will let others make suggestions and I will not say nay to any of them except to say yes get away from Symantec.
Jon On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Marty Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings and salutations everyone! Let me apologize in advance for such > a long e-mail, I didn’t intend for it to go on and on and on…x > > Here’s the deal. Our Symantec agreement is up for renewal here in a little > bit and we are looking at possible alternatives. One package that I am > particularly interested in is Microsoft’s Forefront. Normally I would > cringe at buying something like this from Microsoft, but after my experience > with Security Essentials (which has been GREAT BTW); I thought that looking > at their enterprise solution may not be a bad idea so I wanted to see what > everyone here thinks. > > The one thing I haven’t yet figured out (as I’m not a great DB man) is that > they sell Forefront with MS SQL (locked down so it only works with > Forefront, at least that’s how I read it) or without it. Now the way they > phrase things indicates that MS SQL is needed in one way or another, and I > was wondering if that was really true. Is it possible to use and open > source database? Is anyone here running Forefront? Is so, what’s your > database solution? > > And if not MS’s Forefront, then where else should I be looking? I know a > while back EOD32 was a favorite, is that still the case? We’ve been stuck > with Symantec for ~10 years now and with the bloat and stability of their > programs I would really like to get away from them if there’s a viable > alternative out there. > > Thanks so much, > > -Marty Nelson > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
