ownCloud 7 Unveils New Open Source Cloud File Sharing Features
June 26, 2014
Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
ownCloud, the open source file sharing and syncing platform, is aiming to provide a "Dropbox-like" experience, in its own words—as well as to blur the line demarcating private from public clouds by letting users share file between ownCloud instances. That’s all part of ownCloud 7 Community Edition, the latest version of the platform, which has been released in beta form.
The "Dropbox-like" enhancements in the newest edition of ownCloud come in the form of a completely new web interface for managing cloud data, as well as support for mobile browsers and performance improvements, ownCloud developers said. That the ownCloud community is officially boasting of ownCloud’s ability to look and feel like Dropbox is a clear sign that ownCloud’s backers feel they are ready to compete in primetime with the world’s best known cloud-based file syncing service—albeit one that, in contrast to ownCloud, is not open source…
But the new version of ownCloud is about more than simply trying to emulate the proprietary featuers of Dropbox. ownCloud Community 7 also introduces an interesting feature that "enables users on one ownCloud instance to seamlessly share files with a user on a different ownCloud installation without using share links," according to developers…
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