EightBlack.

Nope, it’s not a new form of pasta thats only available to the uber rich. And its not some silly new social networking phenomenon - thank christ for that.

It’s a real business. A global business. Run by adults. Founded in 1999.

The Postini website refers to its 35,000 customers worldwide, representing a wide range of industries. Customers like Merrill Lynch, Mitsubishi Motors, Orbitz, Rand McNally, LSI Logic, Johnson Controls.

All well known brands if you hang out in the corporate world.

The Postini website describes itself as;

With Postini Solutions, you can secure all of your electronic communications - email, instant messaging and the web – and manage your company’s communication policies from one central location. Postini Solutions can also make it easy to meet your archiving and encryption needs.

On the surface, it appears to be a solid, well run, “fills a niche” business that targets the business and corporate world. No big deal - there are hundreds of other companies all doing the same thing in their own industry.

Except for one thing.

Google just bought it. Now isn’t that interesting.

You tell me why?

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