article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources roaring penguin software news newspapers books scholar jstor free images august 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message roaring penguin software inc. type private industry software founded 1999 headquarters ottawa canada key people dianne skoll president & ceo bill white vp marketing & sales products mimedefang canit pro canit domain pro canit appliance rp pppoe remind website www.roaringpenguin.com roaring penguin software inc. is a small business which sells computer software particularly in the area of antispam . headquartered in ottawa canada the company develops both free and commercial software primarily for the purpose of e mail filtering . 1 history edit roaring penguin was launched in 1999 by dianne skoll 2 former r & d project leader at chipworks inc. roaring penguin initially started as a consultancy . the following year skoll wrote the mimedefang e mail filter for the royal college of physicians and surgeons of canada to limit e mail and virus spam on the college network . skoll donated mimedefang to the open source community under a gnu general public license . 1 roaring penguin then began to develop a user friendly commercial anti spam product called canit which has now become their flagship product . the company now has more than 800 customers using canit many of which are large service providers who have immense spam filtering problems . 3 according to bill white vp of marketing & sales for roaring penguin mimedefang has been the biggest source of business leads for the company . 1 he believes that when the code was released as gpl it inadvertently created credibility and marketing for the new company . 1 roaring penguin continues to develop commercial anti spam software such as canit in addition to working on the open sourced mimedefang project . roaring penguin recently announced a partnership with level platforms a provider of remote monitoring and management software . this partnership solves for resellers the challenge of monitoring the anti spam portion of their customers e mail communications infrastructure . 4 the latest major mimedefang release from roaring penguin software is mimedefang 2.78 released on 23 april 2015 . notes edit a b c d gasperson tina . open source software spurs roaring penguin . retrieved 2008 07 31 . who is dianne . http www.itjungle.com tlb tlb110607 story08.html roaring penguin upgrades canit spam filter for linux unix http www.marketwatch.com news story roaring penguin softwares canit integrates story.aspx guid 4f37a09c 2afe 4069 a068 fe807ce1902c & dist hppr roaring penguin software s canit integrates with level platforms managed workplace to monitor anti spam appliances retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title roaring penguin software & oldid 708555242 categories software companies of canadacompanies based in ottawaanti spamhidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from august 2008all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 march 2016 at 06 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view