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ownCloud becomes part of Kiteworks (owncloud.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I guess that means it's dead, as there's no way a corporation would pay millions to acquire a competitor just to continue developing a free alternative to their own product

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 58 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Since a couple years ago they abandoned the php version (=nextcloud) and they are in the process of a complete rewrite in go, which that means is faster and uses less resources but all existing plugins need to be rewritten too, and given the small user base nobody is going to do that.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 60 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PHP will outlive us all.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And Java will still be active long after the heat-death of the universe

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If python is still around why not?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 points 2 years ago

Just to support all the COBOL.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hold on... owncloud is in go? I have much higher hopes for that. PHP is terrible, even to manage.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 2 years ago

they call it "owncloud infinite scale" but for some reason they don't clearly specify that it's designed for performance, and it has nothing to do with the previous version. They even start the introduction page with this:

Welcome to oCIS, the modern file-sync and share platform, which is based on our knowledge and experience with the PHP based ownCloud server.

If you read that a platform is based on their knowledge and experience with PHP, would you guess that they're talking about a complete rewrite in go?