Sendmail Inc.

Sendmail Inc.

(company)The company, announced in November 1997 and launchedin March 1998, created by Eric Allman, the original authorof Sendmail. Allman is Chief Technology Officer, Greg Olson is President and CEO.

Sendmail Inc. will sell commercial upgrades, service andsupport to Internet Service Providers and corporationsrunning critical e-mail applications, while still continuingfreeware development.

Sun Microsystems founders Bill Joy and Andy Bechtolscheimare among the investors in the company, along with TimO'Reilly of publishers O'Reilly & Associates and John Funk ofe-mail company InfoBeat Inc..

Allman said that he devoted the fist six months of the life ofSendmail Inc. to finalising the freeware release. Acommercial version was due in summer 1998, at around $1000 perserver. The company is expected to reach $40m annual saleswithin three years. Funding is in the region of $1.25m.

http://sendmail.com/.

Address: Emeryville, California, USA.