JumpBox promotional pricing ends at midnight tonight

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JumpBox promotional pricing ends at midnight tonight

by Jason Harris Dec 31st 2007

You have until tonight at Midnight (MST) to buy all basic JumpBoxes for just $24.99. What is a JumpBox? It's an easily installable server application, similar to BitNami. In their library of downloadable JumpBoxes, JumpBox has applications for Document Management, Blogging, Bug Tracking, CRM, and Development, among others.

What sets JumpBoxes apart from other server products is they are aimed at Virtual Environments. Using virtualization, IT managers and other curious geeks can try out server software packages without having to use existing hardware, therefore softening the cost of adoption. Also, unlike most open source solutions, JumpBoxes are supported by a company that will give you technical support. This added support feature takes a bit of the unknown factor of many of these open source packages.

JumpBox is attempting lower costs and save time for those responsible for getting IT software solutions up and running.

Does anyone have any experience with JumpBoxes? Sound off in the comments!

Tags: jumpbox, open source, OpenSource, virtualization

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Thomas Han said 7:22PM on 12-31-2007

hey jharris, what a coincidence, I just watched Scoble's show on PodTech on this company last week too.
http://www.podtech.net/home/4747/virtualization-technology-makes-setting-up-servers-easy

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