Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Oct 30 16:08:45 CDT 2013
Hi All:
OwnCloud, a personal Cloud product has just added another great feature. You now has a multi-user document writer built in that compete well with either Google Doc or Microsoft 365 offerings: http://owncloud.org/six/
The great features are that you do not have to be paying for external Cloud hosting, though you can and that the connections are encrypted P2P. The OwnCloud Documents would be great for those collaborative efforts from a extended team or within a classroom environment. For those people who have limited bandwidth and/or are interested in security this is an ideal product: https://owncloud.com/why-on-premise
The product is fully connectable and compatible with any desktop product as well, Microsoft and Libra Office...and many more. It has full Active Directory (AD) / LDAP integration which allows these features to extend across a remote and local network.
http://owncloud.org/
The small business or personal product is free but if you need real enterprise, large educational or need service provider capabilities and all the bell and whistles, there are full pay options. Documentation and online support, if required, is complete and extensive. The product can be launched on any platform but Linux, of course, is still the most effective. Also, it runs on all your mobile equipment.
Jim