Cloud Office? In addition to Google and paid Microsoft, you actually have other options.

Recently, LibreOffice's business partner Collabora and Owncloud jointly released an online LibreOffice version, where Owncloud is a dropbox-like open source file storage and sharing system (actually a private cloud product).

The development of Open source Office software LibreOffice Network has been on for some time. This is bound to become an open source competitor for Google Docs and Microsoft Office365.

Collabora Online Development (code) is open to developers who can try out their online LibreOffice new features. Collabora now does not provide any support for the development version, but the Collabora and owncloud plans will provide a business solution based on the same code as the development version in 2016.

is the demo of an online libreoffice built on the owncloud private cloud that allows users to edit LibreOffice running on the server through a browser. This initial release contains only a subset of the features of LibreOffice, but will then add more functionality.

With this attempt, we can see that the product is actually very similar to Google Docs. While the editing features are a bit flat and not functional enough, there are basic features for creating and editing documents, demos, and spreadsheets. "This initial release provides basic online document editing capabilities," as Collabora described in the press conference. "Other team collaboration and richer editing capabilities have been placed in the Roadmap (roadmap). “

Development version and online LibreOffice the processing code in the background and the desktop version of the LibreOffice are based on the same code base, so the documents exported from the online Libreoffice/code can be opened entirely by the LibreOffice of the desktop version, All content is not biased.

Google and Microsoft are the two leaders in the online document Office system. They are the two great mountains that are pressing on the head of any new product that wants to enter the market. Users have a very high level of awareness of both products, and they do provide very good functionality for users, including the functionality of team collaboration.

In the long run, assuming that Collabora can provide the ability to contend with, then perhaps there are two ways to take a chance: first, it can provide users with private, self-hosted private cloud-based versions, and second, it can control exactly which version is available to these users. But most users and businesses may have become accustomed to working in online cloud systems offered by Google and Microsoft, so they may not be as likely to catch a cold on the online libreoffice.

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Cloud Office? In addition to Google and paid Microsoft, you actually have other options.