“Again, the cloud-storage channel is already pretty saturated. But ownCloud stands out not only as one of the only fully open source offerings in this space, but also because (unlike competitors such as Dropbox) it’s not a hosted service and has no plans to become one. At the same time, while Rex expects open source contributions from the ownCloud community to remain key to the project’s growth, he also emphasized the importance of acquiring channel partners of a variety of different types, from systems integrators to VARs. On this front, ownCloud is already in talks with some potential organizations, he said, and the project expects to make public announcements on this topic beginning in the first quarter of 2012.”
