Correction.The first Business Brief item in the January/February issue contained inaccurate information from PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) A data encryption program from PGP Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (www.pgp.com). Published as freeware in 1991 and widely used around the world for encrypting e-mail messages and securing files, PGP is available for commercial use and as freeware for Corp. on its security costs. For an enterprise with 10,000 gateway email users and 3,000 internal email users (plus 2,000 each BlackBerry blackberry, name for several species of thorny plants of the genus Rubus of the family Rosaceae (rose family). See bramble. blackberry and laptop Same as laptop computer. laptop - portable computer users), a perpetual license would cost $950,000 in the first year and $200,000 a year after that. An annual subscription license, on the other hand, would cost $350,000 a year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an example supplied by PGP. Final costs may vary somewhat. For a company with 1,000 gateway email users and 300 internal email users (a configuration that includes some large organizations), the perpetual license cost would be just $225,000, and an annual subscription license would be $80,000. |
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