[jlgaddis]

Is ownCloud "ready" for use in an SMB environment?

I have a customer network it would be perfect in (I think): ~15 users, spread across two buildings in two cities with typical broadband connections. There's a definite need to be able to share files between the two offices but Windows filesharing... well, sucks. E-mail ends up being the medium used 95% of the time.

The current plan is to get everyone on the same Windows/AD domain, put in a fileserver at each site and use DFS to take care of everything behind the scenes.

It seems like ownCloud could be a viable candidate to replace that, with the added benefits of giving folks access to their data while out of the office/on the road/travelling/etc.

[adimania]

ownCloud would be perfect for this case. Users can share files, have disk quotas to avoid misuse, share contacts and calendar events. If you want you can user ownCloud user management or integrate with AD or OpenLDAP. Both community and commercial support is also available.