@article {84,
	title = {Building an Open Source Company One Penguin at a Time},
	journal = {Open Source Business Resource},
	year = {2007},
	month = {08/2007},
	publisher = {Talent First Network},
	type = {Articles},
	address = {Ottawa},
	abstract = {Roaring Penguin Software Inc. started as a one-person consulting company in 1999. A year later, David F. Skoll, the company{\textquoteright}s President and CTO, was asked to develop an e-mail filtering tool. David developed MIMEDefang, an e-mail filter that used Sendmail{\textquoteright}s Milter facilities. David donated the code to the open source community, and kept developing MIMEDefang as a free tool for system administrators. Today, the MIMEDefang code is available at at the  website.

By 2002, it was obvious that there was a need for a packaged mail-filtering solution suitable for end-users. David decided to go ahead and write what became CanIt-PRO. Whereas MIMEDefang is suited to system administrators who are familiar with Perl and comfortable with writing their filtering policies in Perl, the CanIt product line allows end-users to control their filtering through a simple web-based interface.

The company transformed itself from a consulting company to a product development company. This transformation required significant changes. 
},
	issn = {1913-6102},
	url = {http://timreview.ca/article/84},
	author = {Bill White}
}
