"A very complex technology to make network management simple." That's what the developers of the eBox platform promise small and medium sized organizations, and it's certainly an attractive idea.

It starts from the premise that all the software you need to run a network is available as open-source, but that getting all that software configured and running together can be quite tricky. So what if there was a management application with a simple web-based GUI that could install all the necessary software and do all the configuration and integration for you with just a handful of mouse clicks...?

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