Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Why are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business (slashdot.org) 1
broswell writes: For years we used Postini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... spam filtering. Google bought Postini in 2007, operated it for 5 years and then began shutting it down.
Then we moved to MX Logic. McAfee bought MX Logic, and McAfee was purchased by Intel. Now Intel is shutting down the service http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
Neither company chose to raise prices, or spin off the division.
Anyone want to speculate on the reasons?
Then we moved to MX Logic. McAfee bought MX Logic, and McAfee was purchased by Intel. Now Intel is shutting down the service http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
Neither company chose to raise prices, or spin off the division.
Anyone want to speculate on the reasons?
It's a mature industry and a "solved" problem (Score:1)
(Note, I'm in the anti-spam industry, both via F/OSS (SpamAssassin) and via a proprietary solution.)
The anti-spam industry is " mature market [wikipedia.org]," which means any "new" customers are stolen from a different anti-spam vendor (including home-brew SpamAssassin setups). This makes it really hard to compete, so only the biggest players are still in the mix. McAfee decided they had better opportunities to make more money, so they cut email security loose.
So we have a market that's nearly impossible to breach fo