Top Ten Reasons Some People Stay with Home-grown/Open Source Email Filtering

November 12th, 2009 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Email Security | View Comments

Several of us recently returned from various hosting-oriented events, including Parallels EMEA Roadshow and cPanel in Texas. We talked to lots of people there that have developed their own homegrown solutions for email filtering, often based on open source; here are the top 10 reasons we heard for keeping their existing email filtering systems:
1. They [...]

Reducing costs and lowering overhead highlighted Commtouch’s session at the cPanel conference

October 22nd, 2009 by Eyal Orgil | Category: Security Conferences | View Comments

Earlier this month Commtouch participated in the cPanel Conference in Houston, Texas. This annual event, now in its 4th year, brings together a wide group of attendees, from Linux engineers to company executives. The three day event offers hosting providers the opportunity to meet with leading cPanel partners and industry gurus to learn how to [...]

How much is your “free” open source messaging security solution really costing you?

September 24th, 2009 by Eyal Orgil | Category: Email Security | View Comments

Hosting providers select open source over commercial solutions as they’re free. But are they really free?  Yes, the download is free, but how about managing and supporting the system. Is that free? And if the software isn’t doing what it’s supposed to do, aren’t there costs associated with that?
Ok, here’s the answer. Yes, there are [...]