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[Daniel Devine]

On 2013-03-15 14:46, Andrew Janke wrote:
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> Please say some more words about this:
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>    * ease of install
Dead easy. You just plonk it on a standard LA(MySQL, Postgres, 
SQLite...)P(HP) stack and it goes. Shared hosting works fine for this... 
As does something like a tiny little ARM based server or NAS. 
Dependencies are pretty basic.

>    * security?
The code seems pretty good when I've looked at it and the developers 
are experienced, however as I just mentioned - it is a PHP application - 
so obviously security comes with an asterisk. It is a very healthy open 
source project with lots of contributors (and commercial support) so 
vulnerabilities are discovered and patched quickly.

>    * reliability
It's just a standard web app, but I'm pretty sure clustering would be 
relatively easy. My instance does not have this set up though. You can 
also hook in external storage services (as a user!) such as Dropbox, 
Amazon S3, SMB (probably needs admin), Google Drive, FTP, WebDAV etc. so 
if ownCloud goes down you can use alternate interfaces.

ownCloud is made to federate so it is easy to build up some redundancy 
by taking advantage of this.

>    * clients for things like droid phones
Linux and Android are first class citizens. There is also support for 
other platforms.
The OwnCloud services are provided over HTTP based protocols (WebDav, 
CalDav, CardDav, REST) so for example if you want to access files in 
ownCloud you can use any platform that supports WebDAV. No need for a 
specialised client!


I see you missed points to do with privacy and lock-in... ownCloud is a 
User Data Manifesto compliant application. 
(http://userdatamanifesto.org)

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Daniel Devine