The chief selling point of ownCloud, the open source private cloud storage platform, has been its ability to build a cloud entirely on in-house, behind-the-firewall servers. Now, the company has gone a step further by introducing a feature for live, collaborative document editing. How does it stand up against better known alternatives such as Google Docs? Here’s a look.
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.
