My company uses Dropbox extensively for sharing project files. It truly is an enhancement to our workflow. But, we don’t like the privacy concerns of hosting our contracts and other confidential information in their cloud, nor do we like the cost. We like everything else.
OwnCloud is an open source alternative to Dropbox, and provides the same features.
I decided to install it on our Mac mini server to give it a trial run. Here’s how I did it: