Tuesday, January 7, 2003

From ZDNet: Meta Group expects most companies to spend $7 to $10 per user during the next year in buying spam-blocking software (with a similar figure for annual maintenance after the first year), and to dedicate one full-time employee per every 10,000 users for spam-blocking operations. These costs are similar to antivirus spending, so companies should anticipate a doubling of the budget dedicated to e-mail hygiene during 2003-04. By 2007, Meta Group believes e-mail hygiene spending will have doubled again (rising to $28 to $40 per user, per year), as companies turn to single vendor solutions for all mail hygiene needs, including virus and spam blocking, denial-of-service attack protection, pornography detection, illicit intellectual property disclosure detection, and offensive-mail blocking services. By that time, Meta Group believes (as with virus protection) hygiene services will be run on all three e-mail tiers--the client, the mailbox server, and the SMTP gateway--and run across multiple e-mail accessible ports (ports 25, 443, 80, and 465, for example). 10:40:16 AM    comment

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