Not a list, per se. However, there is a forum and tech support is always
happy to help you out via email. Heck, I've even had one case where I didn't
submit a ticket, but I still got contacted by support from discussing things
in this list. J They are VERY proactive in helping you with your problems.
As I said, most of their discussions happen in a web forum, not an email
list, but that's not really a problem. Also, Sunbelt will be happy to hook
you up with a 30 day trial of Vipre Enterprise so you can test it out "live"
before you commit to purchasing.

 

John-AldrichTile-Tools

 

From: Marty Nelson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 2:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Moving away from Symantec, how 'bout Microsoft Forefront? Is
there a better database options?

 

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]> 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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