Sorbs bought by GFI?

[Michael Scheidell]

sorry for the long url.
David Kelleher, GFI’s PR Manager:

GFI Software, a leading infrastructure provider, has acquired SORBS, one
of the premier anti-spam reputation services on the Internet.

GFI currently uses SORBS in GFI MailEssentials, and so there is instant
synergy with this strategic move.

GFI is now actively developing plans for the future of SORBS, including
SORBS 2.0 and methods to improve SORBS data and responsiveness.

Having a reputation service within GFI will allow us to provide a better
service to our customers and to greatly enhance our standing in the
anti-spam community as well as give us opportunities to report on spam
trends and analyze real-time feeds in ways we have not previously been
able to. We are very excited about this acquisition and look forward to
the benefits in the months and years to come.

The creator of SORBS, Michelle Sullivan, has joined the company.

<http://www.spamtacular.com/2009/11/05/breaking-sorbs-bought-by-gfi-with-confirmation/>

maybe just the main web site www.spamtacular.com will have a link to it.

SORBS has been a valuable asset to open source and I hope we can see its
continued existance.

Congrats to Michelle Sullivan who has joined GFI.


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[Henrik K]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:25:04AM -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote:

>
> sorry for the long url.
> David Kelleher, GFI?s PR Manager:
>
> GFI Software, a leading infrastructure provider, has acquired SORBS, one  
> of the premier anti-spam reputation services on the Internet.
>
> GFI currently uses SORBS in GFI MailEssentials, and so there is instant  
> synergy with this strategic move.
>
> GFI is now actively developing plans for the future of SORBS, including  
> SORBS 2.0 and methods to improve SORBS data and responsiveness.
>
> Having a reputation service within GFI will allow us to provide a better  
> service to our customers and to greatly enhance our standing in the  
> anti-spam community as well as give us opportunities to report on spam  
> trends and analyze real-time feeds in ways we have not previously been  
> able to. We are very excited about this acquisition and look forward to  
> the benefits in the months and years to come.
>
> The creator of SORBS, Michelle Sullivan, has joined the company.
>
> <http://www.spamtacular.com/2009/11/05/breaking-sorbs-bought-by-gfi-with-confirmation/>
>
> maybe just the main web site www.spamtacular.com will have a link to it.
>
> SORBS has been a valuable asset to open source and I hope we can see its  
> continued existance.
>
> Congrats to Michelle Sullivan who has joined GFI.

PS. This was also slashdotted and discussed on SPAM-L. Please continue
discussion there if it doesn't have anything to do on how if affects SA.
That we can't know in a while.