What are the differences between ownCloud/NextCloud?

[dnutan (Marc)]

@medworthy

what, if any, are the differences between these two products?

At the moment they have fairly the same features.
OwnCloud core is opensource, enterprise features aren’t. NextCloud will keep all features open source.
OwnCloud forked to create Nextcloud

About Nextcloud

@medworthy

is there any similar developments to integrate an office productivity suite (eg. Word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager etc.) with Nextcloud

Yes. Collabora Online 1.8 with LO 5.1 and new features

@medworthy

the ability of having a video communications within the framework), is there any chance that these features will be supported within future releases of NextCloud?

See Integrating secure, private video and audio chat in Nextcloud

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What do you think about NextCloud fork?

Just a few articles about it http://karlitschek.de/2016/06/nextcloud/ This is super interesting! http://www.cio.com/article/3079866/open-source-tools/what-we-can-learn-from-ownclouds-collapse.html He was not happy with the balance between the interests of the ownCloud community and that of the company. Many core engineers followed suit, leaving ownCloud Inc. – No matter who you talk to from SUSE to Red Hat to CoreOS…every company that built its business around open source values the co…