'The need for is very clear, and it is great to marry IceWarp's vision and support with Collabora's ability to execute on that.' That said, 'clearly it is impossible to do anything here without acknowledging the huge body of LibreOffice contributors.'Ĭollabora is planning to maintain and update LibreOffice Online's code after its release, keeping it in sync with the main LibreOffice project. 'I've been working away at this problem - building the prototype while at Suse, and and pitching this for some years,' he said.

Meeks has been attempting to launch LibreOffice Online for some time. 'There are some great privacy implications in the blue-sky future to being able to host yourself as an individual,' said Michael Meeks, general manager at Collabora Productivity, in an email. One immediate possibility with the product release is the ability to host an instance of LibreOffice Online on the hardware of one's choosing. Eventually, the feature set will be expanded, though Collabora hasn't provided a time frame. One feature explicitly described is a common selling point for Office Online and Google Docs alike - the simultaneous, multi-user editing of documents. At first, LibreOffice online will more closely resemble LibreOffice Editor for Android, with 'a subset of the features available in LibreOffice desktop versions,' according to Collabora.

The full gamut of features won't be rolled out right away. Collabora claims it can achieve this kind of fidelity 'by using the same rendering engine as LibreOffice desktop (via LibreOfficeKit)' - in other words, by reusing the original application's C++ source code. ĭubbed LibreOffice Online, the application is intended to guarantee complete document cross-compatibility with the desktop version of LibreOffice any document created in one can be edited in the other without loss of features or data.ĭocuments created in Office Online and Google Docs can typically be exported to and edited in desktop suites without issues, but after multiple round trips between desktop apps, those services typically work for documents that use only the most rudimentary features.

It's Office Online and Google Docs.Ĭollabora, one of the major contributors to the open source LibreOffice productivity suite, has announced a partnership with messaging-solutions provider IceWarp to produce a Web-based version of LibreOffice by the end of 2015. LibreOffice's next big target isn't Microsoft Office.

Aws collabora code