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Old 26-06-2003, 07:41 PM   #1
Fez
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Hi all,

Ive got a corp customer who are currently using messagelabs and will/want to
switch to RAV AV. I have no experience of this product - any good? any
experience? all advice apprieciated

TIA

John


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Old 17-07-2003, 04:49 PM   #2
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> RAV is certainly not bad, but as the product has just been purchased by
> MS, you may want to very carefully consider whether it is something you
> want to buy into. One of RAV's strongpoints is its support for *nix and
> Linux OSes. Although MS has not made any definitive statements about
> its plans for RAV's product line, it seems extremely unlikely that MS
> will retain support for non-Windows product versions beyond the short-
> term. I'd be very surprised if the non-Windows products are ever
> available once MS releases a re-badged product line, and would expect
> existing licensees of non-Windows versions to be lucky to get more than
> a year of detection updates beyond that...
>
>
> --
> Nick FitzGerald
>

Our experiences with RAV are very good, running it with Qmail on Linux.
It is easy to install and easy to maintain.
Bad thing is the kiss of death by MS.
Now however looking for replacement. But not found something with the same
friendly use and pize.

Eric


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