Antivirus E-Box

BASIC DEFINITION

EBox Platform is a unified network server open source (or a unified network platform) for SMEs. eBox can act to manage the network infrastructure, such as Internet Gateway (Gateway), managing security threats (UTM) and office server, and unified communications server or a combination thereof. Moreover, eBox includes a development framework (a framework) to facilitate the development of new services based on Unix.

The project's source code is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under several proprietary licenses. The Spanish company eBox Technologies SL is the owner and sponsor of eBox Platform and owns the copyright of the source code.

eBox Platform began as a collaborative project between two companies and was published as an open source project for the first time in 2005. On November 16, 2006 eBox was officially approved as a project NEOTEC, receiving public funds from the CDTI (Spanish public organization under the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism) to complete the development of version 1.0. eBox was included for the first time on Ubuntu in 2007, the Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3, the third alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10. The first release candidate, eBox 1.0, was published in 2008.