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The main drivers for its growth have been corporate concerns about blocking new viruses that the corporate AV systems do not yet recognise, blocking spam, and being able to control the outward flow of information from the organisation. During 2005 it achieved profitability and extended its services to include a web scanning service and an e-mail encryption service between enterprises. The acquisition of Omnipod follows just one month after the start of the web scanning service.

MessageLabs should be able to speed up the development of Omnipod's services and meet the need to put both e-mail and instant messaging under the control of consistent policies and centralised archiving. It will extend the range of instant messaging networks that its clients can interact with, to include all the major public networks and platforms that are used for corporate IM services. We expect that Voice over IP and various mobile messaging technologies will come into the fold later, but there are significant technical challenges in bringing voice traffic into a text based management regime, and so the integration will remain "lumpy" for the foreseeable future. However the notion of a single managed communications service working under consistent policies will be attractive to many organisations."