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Cloud Version of OpenOffice In the Works

Posted by timothy on from the rather-like-the-non-cloud-version dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Apache Foundation revealed in Sinsheim, Germany their plans for a cloud version of OpenOffice.org based on HTML5. Chinese and German engineers use OpenOffice in 'headless' mode as a base."

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  1. who will host it? by lister+king+of+smeg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will this be something you host or that they host. I would like it if I could host a open office cloud server on my own metal. If it is simply hosted on their server farm I may as well use google docs or desktop based open/libre office(.org). Also will it feature plug-ins? A cryptography plug-in that makes use of client side double public key encryption with collaborative editing would be great. For that matter will it have collaborative editing, or a git like document versioning for multiple editors? If so will it allow collaborative work between the cloud version a desktop version? This could be very useful or just something else I never use.

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    1. Re:who will host it? by yog · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Since it's open source software, currently part of Apache, wouldn't the "cloud" portion of it also be open source? Then you could just download it and have a local OOo server on your LAN. I would love that ability.

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  2. What would be super awesome... by serviscope_minor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since they're using OpenOffice as a back end anyway, what would be really awesome is if the desktop version could connect to the cloud service as well, so one wouldn't have to only use a not quite right browser based version if you had it installed, and it would have proper access to local files, and would use far fewer resources because nothing can hog up a CPU like a web browser.

    You know, like an native app. But on a real computer. Perhaps we could call it an application. Or just program.

    RTFA? It's slashdotted :(

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  3. Let me guess... by acariquara · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It will load sloooooooooooowly, look like the rich text editor Hotmail had in 2003 and require Java(tm) even though it's HTML5 based? /ducks

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  4. LibreOffice is where the real action is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    LibreOffice is where the real action is. They even import bug fixes from Apache Office if there are any not yet fixed in LibreOffice yet. Though activity at Apache seems really slow, so it isn't much work. So technically you can consider them merged in the LibreOffice code base. LibreOffice has much more features than Apache Office and Apache Office doesn't have any features not in LibreOffice.

  5. YAY! by Arancaytar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally we get a suite combining the security and reliability of the cloud with the speed of OpenOffice and Java. Just throw in the usability of MS Office, and you're done.

  6. Re:Hey, guys, at least... by jellomizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am not too sure why would need a Cloud version of OpenOffice. A Cloud MS office makes sense as a subscription service you can pay a smaller amount per month/year or whatever vs paying a lot for the full version. OpenOffice is free. You are more or less going to be better off with a local version.

    I am not one of those hate cloud everything. But for office tools you are better off it being a local app unless you cannot afford what you need.

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