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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