Thank you everyone for the suggestions. It sounds like Vipre may be the way to go, and I thank Roger for the info on it. I'm really hoping that we can get away from Symantec. I'm just praying that the foul taste that I HATE SPAM left is something management can get past so that we can go with another Sunbelt product.
I assume that there's a list like this for Vipre? I guess it would help if I took a look for myself...! As far as Forefront, what Jon's saying sounds like a damn good reason not to go with it. If you need a full copy of sql for Forefront to work l is a HUIGE let down. It also a shame that is sounds like it doesn't necessarily play well with other open source SQL servers or I'd imagine that Jon would have gone that route. Again thank you all for the suggestions, and if there are more out there keep them coming! Thank you all so much, -Marty From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Moving away from Symantec, how 'bout Microsoft Forefront? Is there a better database options? 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]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Express limits db size to 4GB. From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]<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]<mailto:[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/> ~
