ownCloud, a Germany based company, has announced the release of ownCloud Community Edition 6 which comes with a killer feature – ownCloud Documents – which may make ownCloud the Firefox, VLC or Chromium of the online editing world. ownCloud Documents is an online collaborative suite which works just like Google Docs, MS Office 365 or Apple’s iWorks. The only difference is that ownCloud Document is purely open source and natively supports the ISO approved ODF format.
European-U.S. data protection agreement: Yet another attempt, yet another failure
The recent agreement between the US and the EU is the third attempt to secure the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US. Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, does not see the new regulatory attempt as a satisfactory solution.
