* Symantec snatches up anti-spam vendor * Microsoft adds more to licensing, Software Assurance pot * Users form enterprise architecture group * Wal-Mart updates RFID road map * Today on Layer 8
Spam and viruses are the two greatest threats to e-mail as a viable medium, so it was only a matter of time before anti-spam forces joined with anti-virus forces. Virus fighter Symantec yesterday revealed it is planning to buy Brightmail, a company that filtered 96 billion e-mail messages just last month, and found that 64% of them were spam. Let’s see… 64% of 96 billion… carry the 1… and you get a couple hundred spam messages for every man, woman and child in the U.S. No wonder Symantec’s interested. Symantec snatches up anti-spam vendor http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0519symbright.html?net
Spam and viruses are the two greatest threats to e-mail as a viable medium, so it was only a matter of time before anti-spam forces joined with anti-virus forces. Virus fighter Symantec yesterday revealed it is planning to buy Brightmail, a company that filtered 96 billion e-mail messages just last month, and found that 64% of them were spam. Let’s see… 64% of 96 billion… carry the 1… and you get a couple hundred spam messages for every man, woman and child in the U.S. No wonder Symantec’s interested.
Symantec snatches up anti-spam vendor
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0519symbright.html?net
Microsoft adds more to licensing, Software Assurance pot
Microsoft trying to sell its Software Assurance licensing program is starting to sound a bit like a bad infomercial: “And that’s not all. If you order today, we’ll also give you disaster recovery features, hosted services and a set of Ginsu knives. Call now!”
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0519mssa.html?net
Users form enterprise architecture group
A band of IT executives have teamed to launch a new alliance, the Enterprise Architecture Interest Group (EAIG), which aims to help companies develop and share tips on building well-structured IT systems.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0519usersform.html?net
Wal-Mart updates RFID road map
Wal-Mart Stores executives in Chicago at the Retail Systems Conference Tuesday unveiled an updated road map for the company’s rollout of RFID technology and discussed its revised expectations for suppliers working to meet a January 2005 deadline set last year.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0519walmupdat.html?net
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Kids invite RIAA to their prom; Spiderman fights for Web acceleration; what you have to do to get Gmail; and blasphemers invade online church; all this and more today at your home for not-just-networking news.
