KDE Gears Up to a Free Cloud
Jan 27, 2010, 12:33 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Aaron Reichman)
"Community and EventsDay 2 of Camp KDE kicked off with a bang
when Frank Karlitschek announced the start of a significant new KDE
project. The ownCloud initiative will complement the Social Desktop
and Get Hot New Stuff efforts which are already dealing with social
and collaborative data. Like those, the ownCloud initiative strives
to combine the rich desktop interfaces made possible by the Qt and
KDE libraries with the large amount of social information and data
users are putting online. Traditionally, a user has been limited to
the data on the device he/she is using. Recently this has changed
with the introduction of a variety of online services such as
Last.fm, Pandora, Facebook and flickr - a significant portion of
data is now in the cloud rather than local hosted. ownCloud will
allow users more freedom in choosing and changing services, even in
running their own hosted services.
"The cloud
"The advantages of storing data in the cloud are many:
ubiquitous access to data from multiple devices, social interaction
with millions of others on the web and no extra software to
install. However, the data is often owned by several different
organizations, which don't easily allow interaction or sharing of
data among them."
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