It also does not have all the "pieces" needed for ForeFront. Been there done that and like I said the bite hurt. There is a new version coming out but I am not keeping track of it's status at this time. I would be looking at it if I was still in that job.
Jon On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Rod Trent <[email protected]> wrote: > Express limits db size to 4GB. > > > > *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, February 04, 2010 6:48 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Moving away from Symantec, how 'bout Microsoft Forefront? > Is there a better database options? > > > > 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/> ~
