The latter obviously has very little potential in today's market. Their best core products were Languard, EventsManager, the recently developed OneGuard, Archiver and FaxMaker. Exinda might be ok, I don't know, but it has never ever registered in my radar when similar products have been discussed. Kerio products are just not appealing as there are so much better alternatives from competition.
Since the product cull GFI has one decent product left - Languard, the rest is complete garbage and filler.
The problem with the latter is, as I stated above, and that she also agreed with, that there's literally no value in Unlimited subscription for majority of customers. Secondly, everything will move toward subscription only with a push to get everyone subscribe to expensive unlimited bundle. She flat out said that GFI will probably close down it's business soon and that she has increasing difficulties selling GFI products due to their direction.įirst, there's hefty price increases coming, as you stated. Had a chat with our GFI reseller and she was even more pessimistic. it was fun while it lasted, but you sold out to the wrong people (GFI) who as I see it, are basically running the Kerio products into the ground. So today, I emailed my entire client base of Kerio users, and have made them aware of the change, and have recommended moving them to Office 365. while at the same time, they've jacked up pricing for the first year by approximately 40%, and in the second year, the price will increase by over 300%. What irks me, is that I found evidence on their forums after the fact that GFI knew it was being canned at least 3 months earlier, yet continued to sell annual maintenance for the product which in my view is outright dishonest considering the entire reason to have maintenance if for bug fixes and updates.Īnd now, 1 Sept, they have changed their licensing for Kerio Connect from perpetual with annual maintenance, to subscription only. Kerio Operator was declared at "end-of-engineering" on 1 April 2019, but we (as a reseller of Kerio for over 8 years) weren't advised of this until the day. I can't speak for GFI's own product portfolio, but as a long time reseller of Kerio products, pretty much everything ground to a halt with Kerio when GFI acquired that company. Is also on GFI Web Monitor and GFI Endpoint Protection pages. *This product is at end of engineering and is only available through GFI Unlimited We have been mainly a long time Languard user and renewed our subscription for several years lately and now I'm thinking if we should have replaced all our GFI products with Solarwinds instead. This leads me to believe that they have cut down their development team to extent that nothing new is coming out and existing products are kept on minimal life support. That they have killed off OneGuard, their latest and most actively developed product, does not instill any confidence in their future.
#KERIO CONNECT FORUM UPDATE#
I really hoped that they will get their act together this year and finally do a proper update but go figure. There was a 4 year cap between the current version and the last one (and the current version has not seen an update for 2 years, not even a single bug fix). Overall it's been really lagging behind the competition in development. Not to mention any badly needed updates to be competitive in the marketplace.
#KERIO CONNECT FORUM WINDOWS 10#
And now obviously it's not even updated to support Windows 10 / Server 2019. It lacks support and integration for pretty much anything except Windows. I guess it means no updates and no development. "*This product is at end of engineering and is only available through GFI Unlimited". If you go to the Events Manager page it's in really small print:
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