Runbox
Encyclopedia
Runbox AS is a mainly employee-owned company that provides email hosting services worldwide. Runbox was founded in October, 1999 and is headquartered in Oslo
, Norway
. Runbox works closely with, and is partially owned by, Redpill Linpro AS
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components and a web application developed by Runbox and Redpill Linpro with funding from The Research Council of Norway
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Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. Runbox works closely with, and is partially owned by, Redpill Linpro AS
Linpro
Linpro AS is a Linux solutions company from Oslo, Norway, founded in 1995 by Dag Asheim, and mainly owned by its employees. They provide solutions around free and Open Source systems like Linux and FreeBSD, as well as proprietary Unix systems....
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History
- 10 October 1999: Runbox AS founded.
- 16 August 2000: The free email service Runbox Mail Manager launched, pioneering online (cloud) storage of email with offering of 100 MBMegabyteThe megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage or transmission with two different values depending on context: bytes generally for computer memory; and one million bytes generally for computer storage. The IEEE Standards Board has decided that "Mega will mean 1 000...
storage space and email consolidation tools. - March 2001 Runbox Mail Manager reached 130 000 registered accounts, increasing by 1300 per day
- 7 October 2001: Runbox Mail Manager was converted from a free email service to a subscription-based service. 3% of free users converted to paid service.
- 1 July 2004: Email storage space increased to 1 GBGigabyteThe gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is...
. - 21 January 2005: E-mail hosting services launched.
- 28 September 2005: Email storage space increased to 10 GBGigabyteThe gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is...
. - 14 June 2011: Email servers moved to a facillity provided by Copyleft Solutions, the company that will be managing Runbox servers.
Financial Status
Company is backed by investors, employees and Redpill Linpro AS. The company has lost money for the past few years.Services
The core Runbox email service consists of open sourceOpen source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
components and a web application developed by Runbox and Redpill Linpro with funding from The Research Council of Norway
The Research Council of Norway
The Research Council of Norway is a Norwegian government agency responsible for awarding grands for research as well as promoting research and science. It also advises the Government in matters related to research, and is subordinate the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research...
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