Got it up and running. It's free and so far it seems to work. It doesn't have the slick functionality of offerings such as dropbox and Google drive etc. but it actually has enough functionality to work and I'm sure that much of the lag and patchy connectivity etc. are down to my network which isn't exactly bullet proof enterprise standard. If you're in urgent need of a large amount of disk space that you can get at from multiple devices and across the internet, this might be worth considering.
The project has just had an acrimonious split as open source projects often do, with the founder developer and some of his fellow developers leaving to start Nextcloud (which is pretty well identical to ownCloud at the moment). Nextcloud seems to be run on a rather more traditional open source basis. No idea whether one or both will survive.never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead |