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Two reasons why you should test Nextcloud 11 Beta this weekend!

The upcoming release of Nextcloud will be version 11 and the beta is now ready! And you’ve got a whole weekend to test it. With this beta comes the feature freeze. No more major features will be going into master, only fixes and improvements for...

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Four reasons why your business should contribute to the software you use

A main reason to pick open source over proprietary software is that you can participate in its development. But many businesses wonder why they would spend money, time and effort on this! There are four good reasons why it is worth the investment. The story...

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Nextcloud for Windows Mobile is ready for testing!

Today we’d like to announce that the Nextcloud community (by way of André „SunboX“ Fiedler) makes available a client for Windows Mobile! The application is in alpha testing for now because it still has a limited feature set and would benefit from more input, testing...

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Don’t Mess With The Google: the risk of putting all your eggs in one basket

Last Wednesday Dan’s Deals, an advertising blog, wrote a post about Google shutting down over 200 user accounts. And with shutting down, they meant it: the users no longer had access to any of their data and even emails sent to them bounced. Why? Terms...

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Why the (A)GPL is great for business users

As IT leader, you are in need of reliable, long term solutions for your enterprise to build on. You can’t have a sudden license change forcibly increase cost, weak security undermine trade secrecy or sale or bankruptcy of a vendor deprive you of qualified support....

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First Nextcloud Conference was a great success; videos are now live!

In the middle of September we had the first Nextcloud Conference, bringing together over 100 contributors to the TU Berlin with a focus on getting stuff done. And did we get things done! Friday kicked off with a series of talks about enterprise and large...

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You’re all invited to another Stuttgart Hackweek!

Since we kicked off Nextcloud, we have organized a number of face to face meetings in Stuttgart, with the last one getting over 30 participants despite our ‚tradition‘ of announcing them only 2 weeks in advance. At these meetings, we not only discuss and plan...

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CODE 2.0 Introduces Collaborative Editing of Office Documents in Nextcloud

Collabora Productivity just released CODE 2.0, bringing collaborative editing to home users and developers who want to edit documents online. Enterprise users are recommended to wait for Collabora Online 2.0 which will be released soon, they can get access to this through an Enterprise Subscription....

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Three Challenges for a Chief Data Officer

With the growing importance of data in companies, the role of a Chief Data Officer – CDO – is becoming more formalized. CDO’s today are seen as stewards for data ownership and responsibility across the enterprise and you see this role in organizations as diverse...

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