Ask Slashdot: Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business? (slashdot.org)

broswell writes: For years we used Postini for 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. Neither company chose to raise prices, or spin off the division. Anyone want to speculate on the reasons?

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Re:Nobody is buying email software anymore

[Chas]

Outlook is for business, because Exchange is for business.

Outlook is a shitty mail client for idiots because Exchange is a shitty mail solution for lazy-fuck admins.

The ONLY thing Exchange has going for it is that it's integrated into Active Directory, making mail user creation part of domain user creation.

If it weren't for this sad fact, Exchange would have died years and years and years ago.

The fact that you have a MAIL SERVICE that literally eats the entire resources of a server, belches and screams for more, all while delivering bare functionality, for a minimal number of people is an absolute joke.