Whether at home or at work, people are using the Internet to communicate with colleagues, friends, and acquaintances worldwide. The reason for Internet e-mail's popularity is based upon it's increasing worldwide prevalence. Allegro appears in the 1997 Top 100 Emerging Technology Companies list as reported by Computer World Magazine.
Today there are tens of millions of email users sending terabytes of data across the Internet.
To accommodate the current amount of traffic, corporations must be prepared to deploy a powerful and scalable messaging infrastructure. Allegro was one of the first to recognize the need to develop a flexible, powerful, and affordable method of connecting corporate LAN-based messaging systems to the Internet. Since it's founding, Allegro has focused exclusively on developing advanced corporate messaging solutions and has remained an industry leader. He quit his job and relocated back to his roots in Dayton, Ohio and converted a family barn into The Allegro Group, Inc. headquarters. With three other employees, a server, a telephone line, and a handful of customers, the company was established.