<div dir="ltr">It occurs to me that I may have hijacked Kevin's thread. (Sorry, Kevin!)<div><br></div><div>IMHO, I've always considered AVG to be on a par with Symantec as far as protection against threats. As far as I'm concerned, if you're comfortable in decommissioning SEP and learning/rolling out AVG, then the price seems pretty darned good.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If it were my own network, I'd have to consider the cost savings versus the amount of hassle to switch products. I'd also have to do a feature comparison to make sure that I wouldn't lose a feature that's important. While I'm not overly familiar with AVG's ISBE, it's very likely to be very feature-for-feature comparable to SEP. If that's true, then you're down to the money you save versus the hassle (time=money) to change products. If you're planning to roll out new workstations, then that would be a very good time to change AV products and you'll maximize your cost savings. However, if you're not rolling out new workstations, then you'll have to retrofit all your existing workstations, which will eat into (and maybe eliminate entirely) your net savings...</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm sure the big guys would disagree, but it seems to me that there isn't really a whole lot of difference between the big AV products out there. Some may work better (or not) than others in certain circumstances, but generally they seem to be almost approaching commodity-ness. (Yes, I made that word up.) If that's true, then I'd probably need a significant net cost savings or really want a specific feature that isn't currently available to me to get me to switch products. Or I'd have to be specifically unhappy with my current product and/or company. Without some solid tangible net benefit, though, it seems a little "change for the sake of change" to me...</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Kevin Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kjones@coshoctonlibrary.org" target="_blank">kjones@coshoctonlibrary.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Coshocton Public Library has been using Symantec Endpoint Protection from Techsoup for the past few years along with DeepFreeze on the public computers.<div><br></div><div>Just this week, my Director forwarded me an email from an AVG sales rep. AVG is offering an Educational Promotion with the following details:</div>
<div><ul><li>$1.00 per computer per year for a three year agreement<br></li><li>Buyout promotion where they will buy out your current anti-virus contract regardless of how long or how new your contract is<br></li><li>Also, the tech support is free and US based.<br>
</li></ul><div>I think the product they are offering is the AVG Internet Security Business Edition. What is your thoughts? Should I make the jump from SEP? Is anyone using this product?</div></div><div><br></div><div>
I use SEP as a server installation with managed clients. I don't know if AVG can be setup this way or not.</div>
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