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You may know Microsoft Exchange and other commercial stuff for syncing and securing your data without handing it over to cloud providers and authorities - but there are some alternatives.

– Making Any Mac into a Calendar and Contacts Server - HOWTO
http://www.ronregev.com/misc/pim_server_tutorial

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2010043006110069
To protect this hint, in the event that the original site ever vanishes, I’ve also created a PDF from the how-to, and placed it on the hints server: http://www.macosxhints.com/dlfiles/CalDAV_and_CardDAV_howto.pdf

– Quite ok is Funambol https://www.forge.funambol.org

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– And you should also consider using Sparkleshare ►http://sparkleshare.org

– Installing an online desktop on your own server is another approach. In the past EyeOS has delevered stunning features but today’s version seems to be more complicated to setup. It’s nevertheless worth a look : http://www.eyeos.org/open-source/download

Open Source Challenger to Dropbox and Box.net: ownCloud
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/12/open-source-challenger-to-drop.php

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The file sharing, synchronization market led by Dropbox is a popular target these days. For many companies, it’s a chance to horn in on a growing market and carve out a piece of the pie for themselves. For open source projects, it’s a chance to return control of personal data to the user. For the folks behind ownCloud, it’s both.

Now this is what will happen to you if yout try to connect a workstation inside your windows domain to the Dropbox (german): http://www.iris-media.info/spip.php?article3874 No, you don’t want to try.

Google translation (english): http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=de&rurl=translate.google.de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.iris-media.info/spip.php%3Farticle3874&usg=ALkJrhj3Ja5Jd9IDCPuO1fkh7qLd

Personally I think that ►http://sparkleshare.org might be a good start for your own data sync solution.

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