Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online (itworld.com)

sfcrazy writes: Collabora Productivity, a UK-based consulting company, has collaborated with ownCloud Inc. to release a developer edition of online LibreOffice, which they call CODE (Collabora Online Development Edition). "The office suite implementation runs on ownCloud server. That's where all the processing and heavy lifting is done. The rendering happens at the client side. Currently there are three apps: writer (equivalent to MS Word), spreadsheet (Excel) and presentation (PowerPoint). At the moment users can create new documents and edit them. Other functionality, such as collaborative editing, is in the pipeline."

Comments

It used to be terrible

[watermark]

Hopefully they've improved this. I tried this software about a year ago and it was nearly unusable due to the lack of features. It didn't even support page breaks at the time. Some functionality is optional (bibliographies), some is required (page breaks). They probably shouldn't have included it in ownCloud before it had all of the required functionality, because that bad impression stuck with me.

Re:Ugh.

[chipschap]

LibreOffice on the desktop is mediocre

I respect your right to your opinion, based on your own criteria in your own environment, but I find LibreOffice excellent. It does everything I need 100% of the time. I've done anything from letters to 500 page books and it's all been good.

Re:I don't get this

[hackertourist]

Now that is a fine theory right there except that OwnCloud is Free and Open Source,

Yes, I got that. So the normal argument in favor of cloud software (the vendor gets to increase their income) doesn't apply.

Am I the only one who prefers having applications run locally instead of having to cram everything inside a browser window?