Anti-Spam a Billion Dollar Industry

Spam is expected to increase by 115% this year, and the market for anti-Spam software by more than 50%, according to the latest study by consulting and MR firm The Radicati Group, Inc., whose specialist areas include messaging, collaboration and security issues.

'Anti-Spam Market Trends 2004 - 2008' provides market size, four-year forecasts, technology trends, emerging legislation, industry standards, and competitive information for the anti-spam market. The study says there were 15 billion spam email messages sent in 2003 and estimates 35 billion will be sent in 2004.

Email users who are informed dozens of times each day that the junk mail they are reading complies with all relevant legislation will not be surprised to hear that acts like the US federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 or recent EU laws are having little or no impact, and the Radicati Group report says that corporates and consumers are investing more than ever in anti-spam technology. The market for this, (including both anti-spam vendors and anti-spam outsourcers) is expected to top $979 million in 2004, an increase of over 50% from 2003. The market is expected to grow to over $1,740m by 2008.

According to the report, a typical protected mailbox (whether corporate or consumer) includes 2-3 layers of anti-spam filtering technologies. By the end of this year, it expects 55% of all active mailboxes to have deployed an anti-spam solution, and predicts consolidation in the anti-spam market as broader, more comprehensive security platforms replace single solution providers.

The research suggests that SPIM (spam over Instant Messaging) 'will triple from 400 million messages in 2003 to 1.2 billion messages in 2004 as a result of a growing number of corporate and consumer IM users and a sharp increase in published IM names in corporate and public directories'.

The Radicati Group, Inc. has offices in Palo Alto, California and London, UK. More information about the report is available from the Group's web site at www.radicati.com

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