JumpBox Official Blog

Hard to believe it but today we celebrate our third year of existence. We founded JumpBox on July 28th, 2006 with the goal of making Open Source more accessible. The idea was that by dramatically reducing the technical barriers we could enable new use cases and bring this software to new audiences. We’ve come a long way in three years thanks to the support of people like you. And we know we have a long way to go before realizing the degree of usability we envision. Reminiscing over the past year here are few of the more notable milestones:

• Growing the library to over 50 JumpBoxes
• Joining forces with a hosting provider to deliver affordable, turnkey hosting of JumpBoxes
• Rolling out early access to Cloud Gear, a no-upfront-cost way to take advantage of hosting JumpBoxes on Amazon EC2
• Creating self-service tools for managing one’s subscription
• Launching the Ramp Up video series to help reduce the learning curve for getting started with new JumpBoxes
• Building out a helpful set of documentation with our wiki
• Working with the Open Source projects to help them provide more effective trials for their users
• Making the cover of Linux Journal

Thanks for your continued interest in us. If these achievements above seem significant, wait until you see what we have planned for this next year.

And now if you’ll excuse us we have some cake to eat