ownCloud

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ownCloud
Owncloud-logo.png
Original author(s) Frank Karlitschek
Developer(s) ownCloud development team
Initial release June 24, 2010 (2010-06-24) (1.0)[1]
Stable release

10.14.0  (February 26, 2024; 7 months ago (2024-02-26))

[±]
Preview release 10.11.0 Alpha 2  (July 20, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-07-20)) [±]
Written in PHP, JavaScript, Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type File syncing software
Productivity software
License(s) GNU Affero General Public License
Website ownCloud.org

ownCloud is open-source file syncing and sharing software. The primary version is a free Community edition, though related company ownCloud, Inc. offers a fee-based commercial Business and Enterprise edition.

Product history

ownCloud was started by German developer Frank Karlitschek, born from a keynote speech he gave in San Diego, California in January 2010 (as well as previous discussions with other developers and tech-minded people) about "the need of a self-controlled free and open-source cloud."[2][3] An open-source Gitorious project was started by Karlitschek on January 10, 2010[4], and a beta of version 1.0 arrived there a few months later.[5]. Version 1.0 of ownCloud was released on June 24, 2010.[1] Steady work continued on the project, and by late 2011, plans were underway to raise investment capital for an extended business enterprise model of the ownCloud software under a new entity ownCloud, Inc. $820,000 were raised in a first effort in December 2011.[6]

Features

The main features of the ownCloud Community edition include[7]:

  • access, sync, and share data
  • versioning
  • file encryption
  • customizable interface
  • document viewer
  • migration and backup support
  • task lists
  • calenders
  • notifications
  • photo galleries
  • logging
  • LDAP support
  • extensible

Hardware/software requirements

Installation requirements for ownCloud include:

  • PHP 5.3 or greater
  • specific PHP modules

Consult the installation guide for more information on necessary PHP modules.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Entities using ownCloud

Further reading

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Karlitschek, Frank (24 June 2010). "ownCloud 1.0 is here". ownCloud.org. http://blog.karlitschek.de/2010/06/owncloud-10-is-here.html. Retrieved 04 January 2013. 
  2. "About ownCloud". ownCloud.org. http://owncloud.org/about/. Retrieved 04 January 2013. 
  3. Karlitschek, Frank (20 January 2010). "What's going on at Camp KDE?". ownCloud.org. http://blog.karlitschek.de/2010/01/whats-going-on-at-camp-kde.html. Retrieved 04 January 2013. 
  4. "ownCloud". Gitorious. http://gitorious.org/owncloud. Retrieved 04 January 2013. 
  5. Karlitschek, Frank (13 March 2010). "ownCloud - development started". ownCloud.org. http://blog.karlitschek.de/2010/03/owncloud-development-started.html. Retrieved 04 January 2013. 
  6. Brown, Rodney H. (23 December 2011). "OwnCloud showered with $820K in first funding round". Boston Business Journal. http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2011/12/owncloud-showered-with-820k-in-first-funding.html. Retrieved 04 January 2013. 
  7. "ownCloud - Features". ownCloud.org. http://owncloud.org/features/. Retrieved 04 January 2013.