| CommuniGate Pro Internet Communications Platform v5.2.9 |
Kerio MailServer v6.6.2 |
MailSite Fusion v9 |
| CommuniGate Systems |
Kerio Technologies |
MailSite |
| For 100 users, first year: $2,800; $3,285 including A/V, A/S (as tested with Kaspersky and Cloudmark); Subsequent years: $503; $1,988 including A/V, A/S |
For 100 users, first year: $2,299 (including anti-spam); $2,759 including A/V,A/S (as tested with McAfee); Subsequent years: $690 (including anti-spam); $828 including A/V, A/S |
for 100 users, first year: $995; $2,985 including A/V, A/S (Kaspersky anti-virus and Mailshell anti-spam); Subsequent years: $995; $2,985 including A/V, A/S |
| Server platform agnostic; many unified communications features included in the bundle; strong showing in performance tests; excellent Webmail user interface. |
Well matched to mid-market deployments; strong management tools; fully supports Mac clients. |
Strong emphasis on SMTP security; provides ability to control message flow with support for Sieve language. |
| Frustrating management interface. |
Weak message search; on-line support lags. |
Windows centric; lacks MAPI connector for Outlook; lack of real-time visibility into message status; difficult installation process; subscription licensing model raises concerns. |
| MDaemon v10 |
Scalix Enterprise Edition v11.4 |
Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Professional Edition v5 |
| Alt-N Technologies |
Scalix, a Xandros Company |
Zimbra |
| For 100 users, first year: $1,015, including anti-spam; $1,500 including both anti-spam and Kaspersky anti-virus (as tested); Subsequent years: from $0 to $650, depending on the level of support needed (updates to software and anti-spam are free even without support); add $485 for Kaspersky anti-virus updates. |
For 100 users, first year: $3,745; $5,935 including anti-spam and anti-virus (not tested); Subsequent years: $1,000; $2,650 including anti-spam and anti-virus. |
for 100 users, first year: $3800 (as tested with mobility features); includes anti-spam and anti-virus; Subsequent years: $3800; includes anti-spam and anti-virus. |
| Great management system; strong SMTP security, transaction control and message routing; excellent visibility into message flow; offers multi-site scalability. |
Core mailbox service is very solid. |
Outstanding integration with Outlook, Macintosh clients, and ActiveSync devices; Strong end user email experience; installation of open source tools in bundle is quite good. |
| Lacks ActiveSync support for wide-scale mobility device support. |
Lacks integration between bundled open source management tools; ActiveSync support not available for testing. |
On the low end of performance test; some management tool integration rough edges. |
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