Thanks for the comments. I had not heard of eyeOS but have downloaded it now.

We accomplish your document sharing criteria by setting up a WebDAV realm for our users to access. Shows up in the Finder like an iDisk (which is also just WebDAV) and performs just as well. You could also look into the built-in Wiki feature, as we sometimes use that for document evaluation. There isn’t a built-in forum/BB, but I suspect that many that work on Apache/UNIX would work with some tweaking.

I’d be interested to know more about using Mac OS X server as a cloud computer.

I have an OS X server already – and collocated in a server room here in London.

At the moment, I use a Joomla website for collaboration – but am convinced there must be a better way.

I would want to :

Share documents online (ie – edit the files whilst on the server)
Allow downloading and uploading of files
Message boards / forums etc

I have also looked at eyeos.org which is an amazing application which takes a very different approach – but is probably one for the future,

How did you set your cloud ?

Thanks

Andrew

I think that means he gets flipped from the “presumed innocent” position that he is usually in (i.e. “who cares – they’re just a minor player in the game,”) to a “presumed guilty” (“they’re obviously doing this to keep others from eating into their market share!”). Such is the price of being number one, I guess.