"Sendmail, whose products are built on the software that delivers many e-mail messages, may release some substantial new technology as open source.
"The company has a long involvement in the collaborative software movement. It sells proprietary software that works with a popular open-source component, also called Sendmail, used to transfer e-mail from one server to another. But some of those proprietary components may not remain so, said Eric Allman, the company's chief science officer and the original Sendmail author..."
