eBox Platform

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eBox Platform is a unified network server that offers easy and efficient network administration for SMBs, being the open source alternative to Windows Server.

eBox Platform can be set up as a Gateway, an Infrastructure Manager, a Unified Threat Manager, an Office Server, a Unified Communication Server or a combination of them. These functionalities are tightly integrated, automating most tasks and saving time for system administrators.

The company behind eBox Platform, eBox Technologies (www.ebox-technologies.com), offers commercial services such as deployment, support, managed services and training based on eBox Platform.

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Excellent product on its way! Keep in sight!

  by stenito

I started using eBox when it was version 0.7. Although there is no 1.0 release yet, eBox combines a well conceived product with a clear strategy toward providing a SME product anyone can install and use.
It's clear interface covers a professional product, built by a team that is very responsive when problems need to be solved.
I for one will continue using and promoting the use of eBox.

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Powerful yet simple

    by solique

I've been using eBox for a few weeks now in production (my home server) and have been very pleased with it. The interface is clean and uncluttered, and configuration is extremely simple - setting up a Samba PDC or mail server with IMAP takes a matter of minutes. Out of the box it offers many services of use to both home and SME users including a filtering proxy, QoS, firewall, NTP server, POP, IMAP and SMTP support, DNS server and other. It is ... [More] manageable by those both experience and inexperience in Linux and server system administration and has good end user documentation. You really have to try it to appreciate the platform.

What differentiates eBox for other similar products from a developers point of view is its framework. This framework allows for the quick intergration of other software into the eBox interface, including share user and groups, configuration file generation and save/rollback of settings. To give you some idea, I've just released a beta of a subversion module which took about 20 hours, including the time to learn about the eBox API. The resultant package (a .deb file - eBox is based on Debain Sarge, with Etch support coming soon), was 9K in size.

The developers are happy to help, even when the question may be simple. They're on the #ebox IRC channel regularly and there are user and developer mailing lists. Project management is handle via Trac.

As far as shortcomings, there are still a few rough edges in the pre 1.0 release. The main tool for managing network hosts is not well integrated with the rest of the platform, resulting in the need to enter duplicate data, although that is on the roadmap to fix. There is a somewhat unfinished feel to it at the moment, but that that is because it is still heavily in development. Having said that, the release have been very stable.

What differentiates eBox for other similar products from a developers point of view is its framework. This framework allows for the quick intergration of other software into the eBox interface, including share user and groups, configuration file generation and save/rollback of settings. To give you some idea, I've just released a beta of a subversion module which took about 20 hours, including the time to learn about the eBox API. The resultant package (a .deb file - eBox is based on Debain Sarge, with Etch support coming soon), was 9K in size.
The developer docs are not comprehensive at the moment, however the source is well commented. The API doc is not available yet, but is due soon. Some of the core module (LDAP in particular) could do with some streamlining but is doesn't make coding more onerous. It's a fun platform to develop for with progress, and its rewards, coming quickly.

As it stands at the moment, eBox still needs work but it is getting that work from the guys at Warp. As it stands at the moment it makes an excellent home server and with 1.0 due in a few months a good candidate for review for businesses.

The path to 1.0 is very exciting with many features on the roadmap that will really set this appart from similar software. I heartily recommend it, and look forward to given a 5/5 on the 1.0 release :)






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    eBox Technologies to give two presentations at the GCDS’09, July 3-11 in Canary Islands (Spain)

    Posted 6 days ago by heidi

    Ignacio Correas, CEO of eBox Technologies and Javier Uruen, CTO of eBox Technologies will give presentations within the Local Program of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit (GCDS) taking place from the 3rd until the 11th of July in Las Palmas, in the ... [More] Canary Islands (Spain).
    Ignacio Correas will deliver his presentation entitled “Development of a business [...] [Less]

    eBox Technologies to participate in Trade Mission to Silicon Valley organized by Guidewire Group

    Posted about 1 month ago by heidi

    During the Innovate!Europe event eBox Technologies was selected by the Guidewire Group to join an invite-only trade mission to Silicon Valley and San Francisco area, on June 8-12. eBox Technologies’ CEO, Ignacio Correas and COO, Javi Vázquez will ... [More] take part in this trade mission that includes meetings, visits, presentations and other business events.
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    First certified eBox Platform course proves popular

    Posted about 1 month ago by heidi

    The first certified eBox Platform course that corresponds to the “eBox for Network Administrators” course was held from the 11th until the 28th of May at the Centro de Tecnologías Avanzadas (CTA) in Zaragoza, Spain. Over 120 applications were ... [More] received by CTA for the 15 available places.
    “I’m very satisfied with the course both because of [...] [Less]

    New testing version ready (1.1.10)

    Posted about 1 month ago by juruen

    Hi fellow eBox users,
    We are glad to announce the availability of a new testing version: eBox platform 1.1.10. This is the second alpha for our next stable release 1.2.
    This is a great opportunity to check and test the new features that eBox is shipping.
    Please, click on here for further information about this release.

    eBox Technologies receives recognition on regional Enterpreuners Day

    Posted about 1 month ago by heidi

    eBox Technologies was awarded yesterday with “IDEA Award” as for one of the most innovative business ideas conceived in the region. The Aragonese Institute of Public Works (IAF), CEEIARAGÓN and the Fundación Emprender en Aragón grant these awards yearly in order to promote initiatives that contribute to regional development.

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