ClickZ: Lyris Buys E-Mail Deliverability Company

Lyris Technologies, an email service provider, announced it bought Piper Software, an application service provider of email deliverability services. Lyris hopes to cross-sell Piper products - like its QuickProofs tool that determines whether an email got blocked, delivered to an in box or even if it was sent to a spam folder - to its more than 4,000 clients.