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Open365 Is An Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Office 365 (open365.io)

Posted by msmash on from the foss-news-of-the-day dept.

Martin Brinkmann, writing for Ghacks: Open365 is an open source Office 365 alternative that allows you to edit or create documents online, and to sync files with the cloud. The service is in beta currently but you can sign up for it already on the official website. You may use it using a web browser, download clients for Windows, Mac or Linux desktop machines, or for Android. An iOS client is in the making currently and will be made available as well soon. Open 365 offers two main features that you can make use of. First, it enables you to synchronize files between devices you use and the cloud. Second, it allows you to view, edit and create documents in the cloud using the technology provided by the Open Source Office suite LibreOffice Online for that.

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  1. Office365 Haiku by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Thin clients are back
    But your browser is bloated
    How does it fit?

    --
    I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
  2. I've been looking for something like this... by Voyager529 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I do some tech work for a nonprofit. We're Office365, but there are a few documents better kept in-house. I've been looking for a self-hosted collaborative spreadsheet, preferably browser based, but nothing I've tried has materialized correctly...

    FengOffice - doesn't support spreadsheets natively. The hackneyed workaround that does, only supports it in a particular, dated version of FengOffice, and after creating the document, the web app prompts to download the spreadsheet rather than edit it.
    OnlyOffice - eight cores and 8GB of RAM for this VM, and it takes over a minute to load any document.
    ZKSpreadsheet Server - From the hand of Johnny Ives himself comes the most beautiful spreadsheet software ever written. It's fast, it's easy to use, it's effective, it's simple to install, it's resource efficient...and it's $4,000.

    So, if Open365 gets its self-hosted option off the ground, I would love nothing more than for this to solve my problem.

  3. Re:5 terrabytes of cloud storage by somenickname · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They are no longer your photos, music, etc. Now they belong to Microsoft and they can revoke your ability to use them whenever they want and for whatever reason they want. "The cloud" is not a long term storage medium.