In the Soft Copy article "Holding back the fears" [Dec 2006 issue, page 66] there was confusion in some vendors responses to the pricing in the features tables.
The Licensing Cost for Sophos PureMessage, for the initial year was correctly stated as $55.25 and this does include the entire “security bundle” of Anti Virus and Anti Spam. The Anti Virus functionality can be supplied individually at a cost of $40.71 for the first year.
We were not made aware that Sophos PureMessage offers multi-year licensing options that result in a lower cost per year. The correct Long-term Cost figures should be as follows:
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1 year |
3 years |
5 years |
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PureMessage Anti Virus (per user for 50 to 99 users) |
$40.71 |
$81.42 |
$122.13 |
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PureMessage Anti Virus & Anti Spam (per user for 50 to 99 users) |
$55.25 |
$110.50 |
$165.75 |
All prices are inclusive of GST
This revision in Sophos’ pricing places it as the second least expensive Anti-Virus solution over three years, behind Kaspersky, and the third least expensive Anti-Virus solution over five years, behind Kaspersky and Trend Micro, rather than the most expensive solution overall.
This revision to the scoring does not include the Anti-Spam functionality that was previously included for the scoring determination in the original review and now only considers the Anti-Virus product.
We stand by our findings published in the December 2006 issue and this change in pricing is due to new information from Sophos being supplied to us.
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