ownCloud becomes part of Kiteworks
ownCloud becomes part of Kiteworks
Kiteworks and ownCloud join forces to underscore its commitment to the DACH market.
Might be of some interest to those who moved away from ownCloud to Nextcloud.
https://owncloud.com/news/owncloud-becomes-part-of-kiteworks/
I attempted to skim through but it's a lot of fluf with the odd unfamiliar acronym. Kiteworks seems to take pride in their data security but I don't know what they actually do. So maybe a good thing or maybe they are just trying to frame it as such? People need to stop writing articles and blog posts like they need to meet a minimum word count and meet some weird classroom criteria that doesn't actually benefit the writing.
I agree that many of these articles leave a lot to be desired.
The key points are that Kiteworks (formally Accellion, Inc) is an American corporation. They are not into doing things for free, they charge like a wounded bull.
DRACOON (also security conscious enterprise file exchange) and ownCloud mergers into Kiteworks. So what will happen in the future? Well immediately nothing, they will probably continue a 'community' version.
I would think that things like MS integration might become paid only (if its not already) because companies need to make more money. Who knows, they might scrap it as open source too. ownCloud is now at the mercy of a corporate business.
The optimist in me wants to believe ownCloud might get a boost in resources and become more secure as a result of its new management, but my optimism is always reminded of every other time open source has been taken over (eg: pfSense).
The only other thing is DACH market, which is basically the German speaking market. Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Its no surprise they are targeting that area really.
Thanks. I have been vaguely looking into what is up with owncloud after seeing the odd post here and there about people moving to it from nextcloud. I have been so far leaning towards replacing my nextcloud instance in the basement with something less complicated than either of them as I rarely use most of the features.