Alan_J_Roberts@cup.portal.com (08/08/90)
This is a forward from John McAfee: ================================================================== Brian Aslakson posted a Virus-L message concerning the cost of service licenses for VIRUSCAN. Just so there is no misunderstanding, I'd like to point out the differences between our service licenses and our site licenses. Site licenses, for large volume organizations, bottom out at $1.90 per machine. They allow the use on any machine in the licensed organization. Service licenses, on the other hand, are used by organizations that want to license only a few copies, but want to carry those copies to other organizations, or sites, and scan any and all machines at the site. A service organization may license, say, one copy, but use the copy on hundreds of machines a day. As a result, each service copy of SCAN may generate multiple support calls to our office each week, as viruses are detected and removal or containment assitance is requested. Support costs us time and money, but it is provided at no charge to our clients. Accordingly, our service licenses cost more, per copy, than our site licenses. Brian suggests that $5,800 for 100 service copies is unreasonable. I can't say. The folks on our support lines (and not a few of the users of SCAN), however, seem to feel otherwise. John McAfee ... ...-....