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July 24th, 2007 by 
Kimbro Staken “Making it easy to throw away”, that sounds like a pretty odd benefit to a piece of software. But it’s a characteristic that is more desirable than we’d usually admit. Mac OS X has shown us how this can work for desktop software and it’s a great feature. It makes it really easy to try software without worrying about it mucking up your system, if you don’t like it just throw it away. Of course if you do like it, it’s also easy to just keep using it. This is what JumpBox brings to server software. Think of it as server software that doesn’t muck up your system and if you don’t like it you just throw it away.
This is what’s been occupying my time for the last year or so and today we released our first production builds based on the JumpBox Platform 1.0. Nine JumpBoxes are currently available (but if you catch us at OSCon or the TechCrunch party this week we’ll give you a DVD with all the apps plus an unreleased tenth JumpBox). Here’s the list of current applications
These things are really easy to get running. All you need is virtualization software from VMWare or Parallels and they work exactly the same whether you use them on Mac OS X, Windows or Linux. So maybe there are a few other benefits beyond being able to throw them away.
Anyway, it’s a big day for my little company. It’s been a year since we started it and it’s a strange feeling to move from being a venture into actually being a business. Now is where the real work begins though.