Rather, this seems to indicate some bigger issues within the company consistent with the number of people leaving ownCloud. One of several founders leaving a company to start a competing venture wouldn’t typically trigger the immediate shutdown of a company’s U.S. The ownCloud GmbH is not directly affected by this and the growth of the ownCloud Foundation will remain a key priority.” with immediate effect and terminate the contracts of 8 employees. Following American law, we are forced to close the doors of ownCloud, Inc. Our main lenders in the US have canceled our credit. “Unfortunately, the announcement has consequences for ownCloud, Inc. However, the most perplexing bit of news on may have been the statement made by ownCloud to address the issue of Karlitschek leaving and the formation of Nextcloud: It was started by Karlitschek, who is a managing director of this new company, and he was joined by many of the key developers from ownCloud. The departures began to make sense, and the pieces of the puzzle started coming together on June 2 when the formation of Nextcloud was announced. Many of these people had been with ownCloud since nearly the beginning, so all of them leaving at once had to be more than a coincidence. Over the following month, we saw a wave of additional departures from ownCloud, including Lukas Reschke, a security engineer Jos Poortvliet, ownCloud community manager Björn Schießle and Arthur Schiwon, both senior software engineers Morris Jobke, developer and others. As chief technology officer of ownCloud, he had become increasingly frustrated with decisions that affected the open source project and the community, he said. In April, Karlitschek announced that he was leaving ownCloud, the company that he co-founded in 2011 to support the ownCloud project. The software built up a small but fervent user base, many were wary of the lock-in that comes with cloud-based storage providers such as AWS. The idea was to be able to store your files and other data in a cloud, not unlike Dropbox, but the difference is that it was open source, and it was designed from the beginning to be hosted on a company’s servers along with the rest of their infrastructure. While Nextcloud itself is a very new company, formed last month, its story started in 2010 when Frank Karlitschek wrote the initial version of ownCloud to give organizations a better way to host their files and cloud services securely without needing to trust a third party with their data. The newly launched Nextcloud, which is picking up the open source storage software from the struggling ownCloud, is hoping to buck this trend. Typically when an open source software provider is having business difficulties or drops its open source project, the software itself is viewed as suspect by the enterprise, which looks for stability and long term support above all else.
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