Of course, if there is a system update, like firmware, they will implement that as well. You can't make money off of it if you need to pay almost €1500 a year just to get the updates, and those are basically firewall updates. With those licensing costs for a little firewall, it's really disturbing because people look for different solutions when the price is too high. That's a reasonable price, and it also has security.
#Kerio connect license for free#
By comparison, if you know what a Windows 10 workstation does on your local computer, you get the updates for free and the price of the installation is something like $100, and you can use it as long as the product is supported. They just supply a little update and those updates really don't cover the price that they calculate for it. They call it "maintenance," but they are not doing anything in terms of maintenance on my firewall.
To give you an idea of costs, an NG500 costs about €3000, and the licensing costs are about €1400 to €1500 a year. The licensing should really be narrowed down and be at least one-tenth of the price. The licensing costs are still high, which I don't think is reasonable for a product like this. But it's pretty expensive in licensing costs, especially if you use the product longer than one or two years. Where we were using, for example, a VPN solution for 75 users, GFI has now changed the contracts to use the unlimited version, and that is a bit cheaper price-wise, compared to having 75-user account licenses.