| Product | GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP V9.0 Beta 1 | MailMarshal 5.5 SMTP | McAfee SpamKiller for Exchange Small Business | SurfControl |
| Vendor | GFI Software | NetIQ | Network Associates | SurfControl |
| Web | www.gfi.com | www.netiq.com | www.networkassociates.com | www.surfcontrol.com |
| Phone | 1800 225 543 | 02 9959 2313 | 1800 644 646 | 02 9414 0000 |
| Price | $425 for up to 25 mailboxes, $1754.50 for unlimited mailboxes; freeware version available | From $2315 for up to 75 mailboxes | From $28.65 per mailbox incl support (101 nodes) | From $13.30 to $57 per mailbox depending on user count |
| Support | E-mail, phone, Web support available. Maintenance agreement renewable at approx 25% of the list price, otherwise $120 per incident | Essential Care annual maintenance plan available | Included in price | Phone, e-mail, and dial-in support; priority customer care program. Software maintenance and all new releases 25% of license price |
| Minimum hardware requirements | Same as operating system | 400 MHz Intel Pentium II, 128MB RAM, 5GB disk space | 400MHz Intel Pentium II, 512MB RAM, 200MB disk space | 600MHz Intel Pentium III, 512MB RAM, 1GB disk space |
| Operating system | Windows 2000 Professional, Server, or Advanced Server SP3; Windows XP Professional | Windows 2000 or higher | Windows 2000 Server with Active Directory | Windows 2000 server SP1 |
| E-mail software | Exchange 5.5/2000/2003 or any SMTP server | Any SMTP server | Microsoft Exchange 2000 (service pack 2 or later) | Any SMTP server |
| Additional software requirements | IIS5 or higher SMTP service | Microsoft SQL Server 7.0/2000 or Microsoft Database Engine (MSDE) | Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.7 | Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.5 SP1 |
| Maximum mail clients supported | Unlimited | Dependent on licensing | 500 mailboxes | Unlimited |
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I am interested in knowing how the market is for spam filters in Australia, I work for FrontBridge Technologies (in Marina Del Rey, California, U.S.A.) and I recently followed up on an inquiry on us from a Sydney based company. As we spoke they mentioned that there are no perimeter based solutions doing business in Australia like ours.
Just curious and thought the author of this article might like to discuss.