Press Releases
Qubux and Mailshell Join to Extend
Security and Protection for Sun Cobalt Server Appliances
Santa Clara, CA/Portland, OR, August 7, 2002 - Qubux,
a leading provider of server appliance application solutions
for Sun Cobalt today announced an agreement with Mailshell,
creator of the most accurate and reliable anti-spam
software, to provide spam protection for the Sun Cobalt
line of server appliances. Qubux will offer QSC, a special
version of Mailshell's artificial intelligence-based
anti-spam product, both as a stand-alone solution and
in a stack of security applications that includes QFS,
Qubux' artificial intelligence-based content filtering,
and QAV, its anti-virus filtering solution.
Qubux's complete security stack will be deployed on
Sun Cobalt's new general purpose Linux server being
introduced at Linux World in San Francisco, August 12,
2002. The security stack will also be available via
all other current Sun Cobalt platform offerings.
With this added technology, Sun Cobalt servers get
a significant increase in security against outside intrusion,
an increasing concern for servers world wide. Mailshell
blocks up to 99 percent of spam without false positives
or lost messages.
"Qubux is extremely excited to add Mailshell's technology
to its growing foundation of security protection for
Sun Cobalt server appliances," said Craig Beck, President
of Qubux, Inc. "We will continue to research and integrate
the very best technologies available providing the highest
levels security possible for Sun Cobalt servers."
"Qubux has a reputation for leveraging best-of-breed
security solutions," said Eytan Urbas, vice president
of Mailshell. "By combining our reliable, accurate and
scaleable anti-spam software into Qubux's security stack,
we're able to bring greater protection to Qubux's customers
than ever before."
Qubux, founded in 2000, is a leading Internet application
integration and development company. The company specializes
in providing security application payloads enabling
server appliance manufacturers, distributors, and resellers
to expand their revenue potential and security protection
in the ever expanding web-based application market.
For more information, please contact Qubux at 503-283-4700
or visit the Qubux website at www.qubux.com.
Mailshell (http://spamcatcher.mailshell.com) offers
the most accurate, reliable, and easy-to-use anti-spam
technology. Mailshell blocks virtually all spam by combining
proprietary rules-based filtering with its SpamCatcher
Network, a database of millions of email fingerprints,
to determine the probability that each piece of email
is spam. Mailshell was founded in January of 1999 and
currently blocks spam for more than 800,000 people worldwide.
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Contact:
Craig Beck, President, Qubux, Inc (503) 283-4700,
craig@qubux.com
Stefan Pollack, Mailshell, (310) 556-4443, press@stefan.mailshell.com
