BUNK.
I'm going to 150% disagree with you, and no offense, but that's a wreckless comment.
We, the customers, deal with things you have no idea about. Sorry, but walk a few days in our shoes, deal with what we do, support what we must and HOW we must.
What's the big deal anyway? Defs are developed for everything else? Why not release them every hour for q-server?
Why not release the un-QA'd defs for q-server?
Do a search for posts by me regarding quarantine server.
SEP is what's worthless in how it handles quarantined things - at least in the REAL world of support like I must live it in a gov't agency with the customers WE have to deal with. SEP can't operate or do what I need to do with quarantined items.
In fact, recall some Symantec employee said that you'd need 10,000 clients to have such a need or see things that would fit q-server, and you'd not see but one or two items a year that should be submitted?
Well, guess what just happened again today, and if q-server had been 100%, it would have been hands-off for me....... That's twice this month alone - and with only 350 computers, not 10,000
I won't type all that stuff over again - folks can search for my posts on q-server.
I say killing q-server is a crazy idea - and it would take VERY VERY little to make it work and work properly and integrate it.
Until you've seen and worked with me here, please don't judge what we need to do.
There are OTHER products that do what q-server does and when you come in here like that, you really tempt me to get their demos in here. I need what I need, and when one product won't work in a manner consistant with how we must operate here and support things, I find one that will. The fact that SEP was advertised as still working with q-server is one reason we moved to SEP and reinstalled the q-server here.
I'll probably see this message, well, disappear, and be chastised for speaking out, but I'm tired of support telling me I don't know what I'm doing and products we use aren't needed any more. You guys sit in there and support a product developed in-house. I live here and work here and must support things for people that have problem telling their monitor from a keyboard.
Show me how SEP can do EXACTLY what q-server does right now with NO user intervention what-so-ever? Can SEP do that? Can it submit samples and get the latest rapid release defs without intervention?
Can I click a button HERE in my office and do it all? With q-server I could.