Press Releases
Stalker Software and Mailshell's
Anti-Spam Solution Gains Rapid Adoption Among Linux-Based
Corporations
Customers Cite Accuracy and Increased ROI; Rapid
Deployments in the Education, ISP, Healthcare and Media
Markets
LINUX WORLD, San Francisco, (August 4,
2003) - Stalker Software, Inc., the technology leader
in messaging solutions, and Mailshell, developer of
the most accurate and easy to integrate anti-spam engine,
today announced that more than 30 corporations have
purchased and deployed the Linux version of the solution.
The joint Stalker Software/Mailshell Linux plug-in,
released in April of this year, which integrates Mailshell's
spam-catching engine with CommuniGate Pro, improves
an enterprise's ability to intercept and block unsolicited
e-mail. In total, more than 100 organizations running
Linux, Windows, Free BSD, Solaris, AIX and Mac OS X
have purchased and implemented the solution within the
first 90 days of product availability.
"Business users wrestle with a flood
of information today. The time it takes to deal with
unsolicited email makes knowledge harder to attain and
can cause a financial strain on corporations due to
the internal development of expensive spam filters,"
said Tim Sloane, analyst, Sloane Consulting of Valley
View Ventures. "An integrated solution such as the Stalker
Software/Mailshell Linux plug-in is easier to install,
enables corporations to consume fewer system resources
and offers powerful spam prevention algorithms that
IT departments can rely on."
ISP provider Digicon Communications has
been using CommuniGate Pro for two years and recently
deployed SpamCatcher into the messaging platform. "We've
taken over numerous clients based on the fact that we
provide a reliable and secure email platform with an
extremely accurate filtering engine," said Russell Husling,
vice president of Digicon Communications. "The joint
solution provides the most bang for the buck. One of
Digicon's servers, running both CommuniGate Pro and
SpamCatcher, has more than doubled our ROI, greatly
strengthening our presence in the marketplace." Other
customers are impressed by SpamCatcher's intelligent
filtering system.
The SpamCatcher engine identifies unsolicited
email at the server level and integrates seamlessly
into the CommuniGate Pro platform. SpamCatcher uses
more than a thousand spam-blocking rules, including
pattern matches, heuristic functions and proprietary
and third-party databases. Complex algorithms are applied
to compute the probability that each piece of e-mail
is spam. SpamCatcher also creates a fingerprint ID for
every e-mail message and compares it to existing fingerprints
in its databases in order to continuously analyze new
spam, create new rules and adjust the weighting of existing
rules. Customers can opt to receive scheduled or real-time
rules updates.
"Our joint solution with Stalker Software
has been exceptionally popular among Linux-based corporations
due to its ease of use and seamless integration within
customers' existing applications," said Tonny Yu, CEO
of Mailshell. "Integrating our core engine into common
messaging and security applications eliminates the need
for enterprises to implement third-party solutions,
while providing extremely accurate anti-spam functionality."
"Since effective email communication
is a core ingredient of a successful organization, all
types of businesses should definitely consider an anti-spam
solution to improve communication and productivity,"
said Jacinta Tobin, vice president of Business Development
at Stalker Software. "Our joint solution has been popular
for enterprises in various industries, from ISP and
educational institutions to medical technology and advertising
corporations."
Supporting more than 30 hardware and
operating system combinations including UNIX, Windows,
AS/400, mainframes and Mac OS X, CommuniGate Pro offers
the most advanced, robust messaging solution, optimized
to provide email, collaboration, wireless and unified
messaging all on a single message store. Because of
the product's open standards-based architecture, CommuniGate
Pro provides high-performance integrated messaging,
supporting many types of content on a centralized platform
efficiently and reliably.
About Mailshell
Mailshell is the creator of SpamCatcher, the easiest
solution to spam. The company's products include anti-spam
software developers' tools for OEM customers as well
as a suite of enterprise and personal anti-spam products.
Mailshell recently earned an "Editor's Choice" award
in PC Magazine's review of spam filters, and has been
dubbed "priceless" by Forbes magazine, "excellent" by
the Associated Press and "easy to use" by CNET. Mailshell
is based in Santa Clara, CA, with an additional office
in San Francisco. For more information visit http://www.mailshell.com.
About Stalker Software
Founded in 1993, Stalker Software, Inc. is based in
Mill Valley, California. Stalker Software is the technology
leader in messaging solutions for more than 30 major
computer platforms. The company's core technology merges
security, reliability, scalability and a wide range
of integrated services, with ease of deployment and
maintenance. More than 5000 customers worldwide, ranging
from global telcos and ISPs to educational institutions
and corporations, service millions of accounts with
CommuniGate Pro.
For more information about Stalker Software,
Inc. and its products, please contact Alice Liptrot,
director of sales and marketing at (800) 262-4722 or
(415) 383-7164; by fax at (415) 383-7461; or email at
ali@stalker.com. Visit the Stalker Software Web site
at http:// www.stalker.com.
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Contact:
Emily Call or Smita Topolski, Schwartz Communications,
(415) 512-0770, stalker@schwartz-pr.com
Alice Liptrot, Stalker Software, Inc., (415)
383-7164, ali@stalker.com
Eytan Urbas, Mailshell Inc., (415) 348-8728,
marketing@mailshell.com
