IronPort
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IronPort Systems, headquartered in San Bruno, California, designs and sells products and services that protect enterprises against Internet threats. It is best known for IronPort AntiSpam, the SenderBase email reputation service, and email security appliances.
Founded in December, 2000, IronPort drew its early technical staff from companies such as Hotmail, eGroups, ListBot, and Yahoo!.[citation needed]
Cisco Systems announced[1] on January 4th, 2007 that it would buy IronPort in a deal valued at US$830 million.
[edit] External links
- http://www.ironport.com/
- http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000589.html - a few informed viewpoints.
- http://richi.co.uk/blog/2007/01/more-about-why-cisco-bought-ironport.html - speculation about why Cisco bought IronPort
- http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/OObwFRVynd9ti2/Cisco-Buys-IronPort-for-830-Million.xhtml
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