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eBox Platform overview

eBox Platform is an open source small business server that can act as:

  • Gateway
  • Network Infrastructure Manager
  • Unified Threat Manager
  • Office Server
  • Unified Communications Server
  • or a combination of the above

eBox Platform aims to offer all network services based on the same technology and fully integrated, allowing system administrators to automate tasks, to avoid mistakes and to save time. You can download use cases of eBox Platform, Linux small business server, as a firewall, office server, gateway, infrastructure manager, etc. in various environments such as high schools, companies and public administrations.

Licensing

The project's source code is available under terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2), as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements. eBox Platform is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Spanish company eBox Technologies S.L., which holds the copyright to the codebase.

History

eBox Platform was first published in 2005 as an open-source, collaborative project. The first time eBox was included in Ubuntu was in 2007, in the Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3, the third alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10. The first stable release candidate, eBox 1.0, was published in 2008. The latest stable version, eBox Platform 1.4, was published in February 2010.

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