We've been using several JumpBoxes in development, staging and production environments as well as for infrastructure support for quite some time. We find the JumpBox for TRAC/Subversion particularly helpful, because we can build up and then burn down an environment at both ends of a project faster than installing SVN alone. The ability to fire up several peripheral services, such as OpenLDAP, a LAMP stack and an SCM store around a project in a VLAN with total isolation without the need to consume additional hardware is fantastic and much more "real world" than working on a project in a mixed environment.
Keep up the great work. The combination of turnkey installations in virtualization environments makes this a lifesaver.
Robert Goodyear - Founder BrandUp
Awesome - I use the Joomla and Wordpress Jumpboxes and the experience has been beyond amazing. The ease of use and the pleasure of developing offline and being able to show to clients what they can expect without being tied to a network connection is a dream come true.
Peter Spaepen - CEO
It's been great. I've successfully implemented the company intra-net using the Twiki Jumpbox. I'm not worried about the backups now. I don't even have to dedicate a machine just for the purpose. "Hardware independence is just the Cherry I need on the my tech sundae!"
Rohit Arora - IT/CAD Manager
We love the cacti appliance!
Funny thing is we spent hours trying to get cacti configured correctly using open source apps on ubuntu…
Then we found jumpbox! It was the best $30.00 we’ve spent.
Fast, simple, and configured perfectly!
Patrick Guthrie - President Lompoc Phone and Computer
OK folks - way, way cool. You folks are making this whole concept work like no other. I have been looking at wordpress, joomla, drupal, etc... wanting to push our company in this direction, but never wanting to muck around for ages just to find out if it's the right product... It took me 2 minutes to download and approximately one mouse click to get the thing up and running. Wow. Game changer!
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Very Good ... It makes everything a lot easier to install, backup and system recovery in no time :-)
With jumpbox solution of the Twiki I could turn my focus to the TWiki devolpment and skip installation of apache server, security settings etc. A great collection of tools/application that just make me happy :-D
Jesper Westendahl - Development Manager
I love JumpBox. I did a install of Trac by myself on a windows machine. It took me several days to install and configure, with JumpBox I can have it up in minutes. Thank you Thank you
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I have had a great experience. Very intuitive and gives me the opportunity to train volunteers without worrying about lost data or destruction of hardware.
Michael Thompson - Not-for-Profit founder/Technology Admin
The whole concept of the JumpBox platform is great. I have grown to love using VMs for all my development work over the last year - they are just so easy to use now and so stable.
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Great It has made it very easy for me to test all of these cool online apps
Wally Kroeker - Network Admin
Jumpbox was a very fast way of testing twiki. There are other Twiki submissions for VMware, but I felt more confident the jumpbox version would work faster. I tend to be wary of putting a VM into production when I have downloaded it from the VMTN submissions so use them to test a proposition then do the install work myself. However, having tried the jumpbox, I'd feel pretty comfortable using one in production.
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Overall i find jumpbox VM's to be well thought out and nicely configured. I have evaluated a number of them and have one of the sugarcrm vms in use right now.
Erik Williams - partner IWRKZ LLC
For what I wanted - ie a trac/subversion server that required essentially zero setup - I think it is nearly perfect. I tried a number of other VMs that do similar things, but all had a lack of professionalism and gloss that yours does.
Anonymous survey response
Great! I love how easy and reliable it is.
Sean - Developer
Excellent; I tried Drupal (sleek and workable) TWiki (way more confusing to use than MediaWiki which we love at the office) and OpenLDAP (LDAP seems so totally designed for something other than what it is used for but the JumpBox allowed me to actually get an LDAP server to work on my network two other VMWare appliances were total failures so this one rocks).
David Baker - President
Very convenient to have Twiki within a VM! Has allowed me to focus on getting content in rather than configuring a machine to host it
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I have played with SugarCRM and vTiger and was very impressed with the ease of JumpBox.
Glendon Kuhns - IT Manager
I love this idea. I think it's great, and I really hope it takes off. It could be one of the best things for open source software in years! The Trac JumpBox was a very easy, clean setup, so now I'm going to try WordPress. Look for my review of JumpBox software on paXoo.com in the upcoming days!
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This is a revolutionary product that will, in my opinion, suit my exact needs.
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I think Virtual Appliances and Jumpbox solutions is a great idea. This is the way software packages will be distributed in the future. Less complicated installation and easier to move to better hardware etc.
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I've been using paper, Notepad and whole websites (and everything in-between) to track bugs, issues and requests from my users, and finally realized that a system like Trac would make my life a lot easier. But the tracking-systems I've looked at, seemed a little intimidating and sort of "overkill", until I installed VMWare Server on my server, and found this release of Trac. I mean, what could be easier? Thank you SO much, for making Trac avalible as a Virtual Appliance! You people ROCK, me and my users are ever so greatful, thank you very much! Warm thanks & regards,
Thomas Boelskifte Admin and Server Oompa-Loompa
I want to thank you for your work. Those open source virtual appliances make my life as an independant website developer much easier. It's the only way for those people like me to have a testing environment. Otherwise I weren't able to drive tests on diverse software configurations, because it were too expensive.
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It's the first of it's kind I've used and I like it a lot. I would definitely recommend it to all my friends in the IT industry.
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Great product(s). I'll be watching to see what other tools you offer.
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I like the fact that it does just what it is meant to, no more no less, as it keep the size of the VM to the bare minimium. The user interface (web) is minimalistic but stylish and "to the point" at the same time. The support forum has been very responsive and friendly. I like your product and the business idea behind it. Are you the next Red Hat of the VMs? All the best.
Michel