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France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded) (mastodon.social)
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[–] Trihilis@ani.social 43 points 1 month ago (4 children)

While both of those are great software. Unless I'm not aware of something they aren't cloud/network based office suites like Google docs and office 365.

It seems this is an alternative to office software where you can work simultaneously and share documents in the same cloud/network.

I don't think there is an alternative to office 365 and Google docs at this point that is open source. So this seems like a great project and I'll definitely be considering it for our company.

[–] Exceptionhandler@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What about Collabora Online? It integrates nicely into Nextcloud, but I am not sure about pricing for business use.

https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-online/

Guide for self hosting: https://collabora-online-for-nextcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install/

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks I'll definitely check that out. I've seen some posts about it working on Synology Nas devices so that's very interesting.

[–] CostcoFanboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

If you ever diverge away from proprietary Synology solution, NextCloud has 100% integration with Collabora too.

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There's onlyoffice for cloud based office

[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Onlyoffice seems a little slack on the security and updates. I saw the warnings in the desktop package, have they made sure the online offerings are secure?

[–] bishbosh@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

If there are issues like this, sounds like a good goal for a country that wants to divest from US tech companies.

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

what do you mean?

[–] bubblewrap@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

OnlyOffice has a lot of ties with Russia/CIS. I'd personally avoid it on that basis.

[–] bubblewrap@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OnlyOffice has a lot of ties with Russia/CIS. I'd personally avoid it on that basis.

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Do you have Amy sources on that

[–] passenger@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

There is nextcloud and others you can self host at least.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

LibreOffice online exists. It’s not mature, but they could have invest half their time in making it so.

Only Office is natively cloud based, with an optional offline/desktop version.

Both are open source, if the concern is project governance, create a fork and rebrand.