Why
ownCloud is Best Cloud Collaboration Tool can be answered by you after
using it and knowing about its powerful back end. Let us see what
ownCloud has. ownCloud is an server installable Free Software suite that
gives a managable storage space with graphical interface with wide
plugins or addons. ownCloud was launched in January 2010 by Frank
Karlitschek to provide a free alternative software. Before going to
details on Why ownCloud is Best Cloud Collaboration Tool, you can read a
guide to install ownCloud on Rackspace Cloud Sites and a handy users
guide on ownCloud.
Why ownCloud is Best Cloud Collaboration Tool : FeaturesYou can try ownCloud as live demo on their official website :
http://owncloud.org/
ownCloud
runs on PHP and can use SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL as database. Why
ownCloud is Best Cloud Collaboration Tool can not be judged from these
points as most online collaboration tool actually are PHP MySQL web
application. You can store your files, folders, contacts, photo
galleries, calendars on your Cloud Server or Cloud Computing Platform,
it supports encryption over HTTP by default. You can increase security
by SSL. It has built in support for external cloud storage plus the
editing tools, photo viewers are quite good by default. Installation as
we have shown in the tutorial is simply very easy.
Why ownCloud is Best Cloud Collaboration Tool
First
it is an Free, Open Software with optional paid official support. The
support is good point as enterprise users might need a good dev team and
instead of bad third party support. The default features, easy
installation, mobile device support makes it the best solution.
However,
ownCloud has limitation by their own policy of development. It is not
acceptable that the free edition lacks features and developers will
develop plugins for free and they will lick the honey by supplying as
paid product. We observed what eyeOS did – they had almost the same
structure of business. Developers must know that, ownCloud can be a
second eyeOS by sudden withdraw of the Free version sucking their work.
Definitely, nothing can be compared with the structure and policy of
WordPress.org.
Thanks for your praise of ownCloud, much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the last paragraph is incorrect. I do think that you are missing our community pledge, or maybe have not studied our contributor agreement in full:
http://owncloud.org/about/contributor-agreement/
Our contributor agreement includes a community pledge, any contributions we do get will always be available as AGPL. This means that we can not just take other peoples code and make it available as a commercial version only. We will also have to release an AGPL version. This seems very different from eyeOS, or?
The features which will only be available in the payed version are very selective (currently it is the Logging Module only).