Roaring Penguin Software
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Roaring Penguin Software, Inc. is a small business
which sells computer
software, particularly in the area of antispam. Headquartered in Ottawa
, Canada
, the company develops both free and commercial software primarily for the purpose of e-mail filtering.
e-mail filter for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons to limit e-mail and virus spam on the college network.
Skoll donated MIMEDefang to the open-source community under a GNU General Public License
. Roaring Penguin then began to develop a user-friendly commercial anti-spam product called CanIt, which has now become their flagship product. The company now has more than 800 customers using CanIt, many of which are large service providers who have immense spam filtering problems. According to Bill White, VP of Marketing & Sales for Roaring Penguin, MIMEDefang has been the biggest source of business leads for the company. He believes that when the code was released as GPL it "inadvertently created credibility and marketing for the new company." Roaring Penguin continues to develop commercial anti-spam software such as CanIt, in addition to working on the open-sourced MIMEDefang project.
Roaring Penguin recently announced a partnership with Level Platforms
, a provider of remote monitoring and management software. This partnership solves for resellers the challenge of monitoring the anti-spam portion of their customers' e-mail communications infrastructure.
The latest major MIMEDefang release from Roaring Penguin Software is MIMEDefang 2.71 (released on 18 August 2010.)
Small business
A small business is a business that is privately owned and operated, with a small number of employees and relatively low volume of sales. Small businesses are normally privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships...
which sells computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
software, particularly in the area of antispam. Headquartered in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, the company develops both free and commercial software primarily for the purpose of e-mail filtering.
History
Roaring Penguin was launched in 1999 by David Skoll, former R&D project leader at Chipworks, Inc. Roaring Penguin initially started as a consultancy. The following year, wrote the MIMEDefangMIMEDefang
MIMEDefang is a GPL licensed framework for filtering e-mail. It uses sendmail's "Milter" API, some C glue code, and some Perl code to let the user write high-performance mail filters in Perl.MIMEDefang can be used to:* Block viruses...
e-mail filter for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons to limit e-mail and virus spam on the college network.
Skoll donated MIMEDefang to the open-source community under a GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
. Roaring Penguin then began to develop a user-friendly commercial anti-spam product called CanIt, which has now become their flagship product. The company now has more than 800 customers using CanIt, many of which are large service providers who have immense spam filtering problems. According to Bill White, VP of Marketing & Sales for Roaring Penguin, MIMEDefang has been the biggest source of business leads for the company. He believes that when the code was released as GPL it "inadvertently created credibility and marketing for the new company." Roaring Penguin continues to develop commercial anti-spam software such as CanIt, in addition to working on the open-sourced MIMEDefang project.
Roaring Penguin recently announced a partnership with Level Platforms
Level Platforms
Level Platforms is a provider of remote monitoring and management software products for IT service providers and VARs that provide IT support services for small and medium size businesses and branch offices....
, a provider of remote monitoring and management software. This partnership solves for resellers the challenge of monitoring the anti-spam portion of their customers' e-mail communications infrastructure.
The latest major MIMEDefang release from Roaring Penguin Software is MIMEDefang 2.71 (released on 18 August 2010.)