Office Server
With an Office Server, organisations can more effectivly communicate with customers, share and backup information and manage security. It can also act as a platform for applications that improve productivity.
Using Linux and FOSS for a server platform has additional benefits — Linux and FOSS applications known for their reliability and stability.
Once the Server Plaform is configured, a world of FOSS business applications are available. With Web-based applications, your business data can securly accessed from any internet enabled device — from remote office computers to smart phones.
Functions and features can be mixed and matched to your needs — with no confusing editions and feature matrixes, costly upgrades or licensing requirements.
eBox Platform
Based on the popular Ubuntu Server distribution, eBox is designed to be an easily managed and monitored server platform for small to medium businesses. eBox provides modules to manage the mundane — users and groups, file and printer sharing — and the more exotic — Voice over IP, Virtual Private Networks, Multiple Gateways.
As it is Ubuntu-compatible, a 'multiverse' of Open Source applications are also available.
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Some of the Windows licence fine print includes deliberate "gotchas", Microsoft CEO Ballmer admitted - and he has no plans to make things simpler
Microsoft puts "gotchas" in the fine print of its licences to get money out of users - and there are no plans to make those licences any simpler, Steve Ballmer told customers in London today.
Imagine a technology that lets you manage easily any service in a corporate network, no matter how large or small, saving tons of time and avoiding errors. Imagine that you can easily adapt it and extend its functionality. Imagine that it is open source. Well, that's eBox.
The Register looks at Linux and Windows vulnerabilities. From 2003 - but still interesting - particularly as we still have not seen a flood of Linux viruses.
Opinion To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it, writes SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman.
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Imagine a technology that lets you manage easily any service in a corporate network, no matter how large or small, saving tons of time and avoiding errors. Imagine that you can easily adapt it and extend its functionality. Imagine that it is open source. Well, that's eBox.
- Review from June 2008 looking at eBox Plaform version 0.11.100 - so it is fairly old. However, it is a positive review, and many of the issues mentioned have been resolved.
I have over fifteen years experience in systems and network configuration and support. For most of that time I have been working with Open Source Software, and believe that Open Source software provides the best solutions for business, educational and personal use.
