Interview with Untangle: Open Source Network Gateway Apps

In this interview, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dirk Morris, Co-Founder & CTO of Untangle. Untangle provides an open source, integrated network gateway solution for small businesses, which includes spam and spyware blocking, web filtering, anti-virus protection, firewall, VPN, and numerous other features. Untangle integrates all of these existing open source network gateway applications into a single application, which can be run on a single server, with a simple user interface. Dirk shares about the tremendous opportunities Untangle has had to reach small businesses, largely due to the fact that their entire product offering is free and open source. He also shares about his personal background and career path, which started on the engineering side, but quickly led him to exciting entrepreneurial opportunities. He also gives some great advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, so be sure to check it out!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• dirk
• morris
• untangle
• network
• gateway
• spam
• spyware
• virus
• open
• source
• free
• entrepreneur
• CTO
• startup
• business

[patjanz]

UNTANGLE IS THE BOMB, EXCEPT FOR CAPTIVE PORTAL, WHICH CAN BE PROBLEMATIC SOMETIMES.

[divery4eyes]

crappy nics xo

might werk out for a while, but in the long run a good quality nic will be needed.

[RenegadeFury]

aww I just learned that the good antivirus costs money D: oh well I wonder how the shitty one does

[RenegadeFury]

yay i watched this going to install it, hope it works with my crappy nics