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Yeah but its very simple to get in and out of a car- not so simple to get in and out of a corporate AV across many tens of pc’s. Nor is it so trivial to test every scenario within the 30 days- assuming the product may have been exhibiting all problems across all installed computers and assuming you spent all 30 days monitoring and testing. We actually didn’t install across the entire business on day 1- since SP1 came out a few days later and we had all kinds of other issues with rollback problems!
In any case we just don’t generally have the luxury of ‘testing’ in a sandbox environment on live servers. How would you propose testing the real product on a live server? - if you only install in on a VM snapshot or something you probably won’t find out about the problems until you actually install it on a live server. (We didn’t see any problems for over a week when we just installed on the servers- the problems started later on when when deployed to workstations)
So I hear where you are coming from, but I think what you are suggesting is unreasonable in the corporate world, where we come to expect that products running on mission critical servers will be built and tested to a much higher standard than home consumer products. As for second opinions, there really were none as the product is too new- however if you look through this forum there are not a lot of positive reviews yet.
As a reseller I want to sell a product with confidence to a customer and I don’t have 30 days of free consulting to check if the solution works in every particular environment across every single pc. Also some of the information critical to our deployment was not even available in the documentation or at release until some very helpful posters provided it on this forum- wpn take a bow!
The fact that SP1 was released so suddenly after golden suggests avast BP Console was just plain not ready for corporate release.