Zaragoza, Spain-based eBox Technologies announced the availability of version 1.0 of its Ubuntu Linux-based eBox server distribution.The open source eBox 1.0 features LDAP, DHCP, NTP, DNS, and email servers, among other features, and provides a new development framework for building add-on modules, says the company.
Aimed primarily at small- and medium-sized business, but also supporting home and enterprise users, eBox combines numerous open source packages under an umbrella framework that is said to ease network management. Most of eBox's code works to manage the internal communication among otherwise-independent network services, says eBox Technologies. As a result, administrators can more easily manage IT infrastructure as a single unit, claims the company. For example, the object-based network management system is said to enable high-level management of IP addresses, easing the administration of the firewalls and other tools.
