InBoxer also finds messages that other systems miss. I often give the example of a "dumb blonde" joke. These jokes may not have a single dirty word, so they may not be found if you do a keyword search. But, these jokes can easily contribute to a hostile work environment.

Another example is that InBoxer has ability to find messages containing any social security number or credit card number to find a privacy leak. Any product can find a specific social security number. But finding any number in a variety of formats is harder.

David: Compared to most Notes and Domino installations, you're a relatively small company. How can you reassure prospective customers that you're able to maintain this hardware, especially in a worldwide deployment?

Roger: InBoxer is an IBM Business Partner and a Microsoft Certified Partner. We have provided support to customers on five continents and support some of the largest companies in the world. One Fortune 10 company is an InBoxer customer.

Our hardware support is provided by Dell, which supplies next day on-site hardware support for most of our customers.

David: So, how much does it cost? what exactly is running inside it? What's the hardware, configuration? What about software? What Linux distro are you running? What other software? What's your code written in?

Roger: InBoxer starts at $5,000 for the first year for small companies. Our pricing is based on the number of users and is tiered based on required features.

The hardware includes two dual-core Xeon processors, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, and up to 3 terabytes of internal storage. The total amount of usable archiving storage is virtually unlimited because the system supports networked file servers and low-cost USB drives.

The system runs on an open-source version of Red Hat Linux. InBoxer software is written primarily in Python.

David: Why sell a box and not simply a software product?

Roger: Any software product that runs on a Lotus Domino server increases the risk to mission-critical applications. They also require significant IT effort to install, optimize, and manage.

The InBoxer Anti-Risk Appliance is designed to minimize the risk to your operation. It requires minimal IT effort. The InBoxer system arrives pre-configured and is typically installed in less than an hour of IT effort. By the time you have logged in, the system has already started processing mail.

David: Here at ZATZ, we have enormous email archives and email flow, and we're also a relatively tiny company. How can you be sure to provide enough disk space to archive all the flow from the large companies and installations that typically deploy Domino?

Roger: The InBoxer Anti-Risk Appliance supports virtually unlimited archival storage. In addition to the up to 3 terabytes of internal storage, the system gives you a lot of choices.

Do you already backup your systems? If so, InBoxer can compress and archive messages to your networked file storage system. Your existing backup procedures can handle the rest. There is no need to create a redundant storage system.