EBox

EBox

Zentyal (formerly eBox Platform) is an Linux server for small and medium enterprises (SMBs), considered an alternative to Windows Server and other Microsoft's infrastructure products for SMBs. Zentyal can act as a Gateway, Network Infrastructure Manager, Unified Threat Manager, Office Server, Unified communications Server or a combination of them. Zentyal is based on Ubuntu and it can be installed either from Ubuntu repositories or from Zentyal's own installer.

Zentyal is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Spanish company eBox Technologies S.L., which holds the copyright to the codebase, and offers services embedded with commercial editions of the software. Such services include technical support, software and security updates, disaster recovery or access to remote monitoring and management platform. The project's source code is available under terms of the GNU General Public License.

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