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November 13th, 2007 by 
Kimbro Staken After a quiet couple months, things are really cracking now with JumpBox. We had some great stuff queued up that took a lot longer to get out than I expected. The funny thing is that the product was ready, but it took a while to line up the rest of the pieces. So what have we been up to?
Well …
Nov. 1 we announced a partnership with Microsoft and support for Microsoft virtualization in all JumpBox virtual appliances.
We followed that up on Nov. 7 with a joint announcement with Virtual Iron that all JumpBoxes now support their platform.
So what this means is that JumpBox now provides a single virtual machine download that will run the same on any VMWare product, Parallels, Microsoft Virtual PC/Virtual Server, Virtual Iron and Xen Open Source. Now that’s portability. One download, run it on Mac, Windows, Linux using the virtualization platform of your choice. It’s simple, quick, flexible and powerful, everything software should be.
That’s some pretty cool stuff, but we weren’t quite done yet, so today we announced the release of the JumpBox Proving Grounds and eight new JumpBoxes. The Proving Grounds is our beta user community which we are using to get new JumpBoxes into people’s hands much faster. We released eight beta JumpBoxes today, and here’s a secret, there’s seven more sitting in the queue. Want to check them out, then get your invite now.
Here’s what’s available today to people who join the Proving Grounds.
BTW, we’re also doing a joint Webinar with Virtual Iron on December 12 so if you want to learn more about JumpBox or Virtual Iron it’s a great opportunity. You can signup here.