LibreOffice to become the cornerstone of the world’s first universal productivity solution
Berlin, March 25, 2015 – LibreOffice, the best free office suite ever, is set to become the cornerstone of the world’s first global personal productivity solution – LibreOffice Online – following an announcement by IceWarp and Collabora of a joint development effort. LibreOffice is available as a native application for every desktop OS, and is currently under development for Android. In addition, it is available on virtual platforms for Chrome OS, Firefox OS and iOS.
“LibreOffice was born with the objective of leveraging the OpenOffice historic heritage to build a solid ecosystem capable of attracting those investments which are key for the further development of free software,” says Eliane Domingos de Sousa, Director of The Document Foundation. “Thanks to the increasing number of companies which are investing on the development of LibreOffice, we are on track to make it available on every platform, including the cloud. We are grateful to IceWarp for providing the resources for a further development of LibreOffice Online.”
Development of LibreOffice Online started back in 2011, with the availability of a proof of concept of the client front end, based on HTML5 technology. That proof of concept will be developed into a state of the art cloud application, which will become the free alternative to proprietary solutions such as Google Docs and Office 365, and the first to natively support the Open Document Format (ODF) standard.
“It is wonderful to marry IceWarp’s vision and investment with our passion and skills for LibreOffice development. It is always satisfying to work on something that, as a company, we have a need for ourselves,” says Michael Meeks, Vice President of Collabora Productivity, who developed the proof of concept back in 2011 and will oversee the development of LibreOffice Online.
The availability of LibreOffice Online will be communicated at a later stage.
LibreOffice is available as a native application for every desktop OS? No, only for every MAJOR desktop OS. 🙂
Can you name me one it doesn’t run on? As far as I know it runs on literally every Linux Distro on the market along with Windows and OSX. I can’t think of a single desktop OS out today that it doesn’t run on.
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, AmigaOS
Sorry mate, you need to check your sources – libreoffice can be installed to the BSD’s via ports or binaries. Now as for Amiga . . .REALLY??? If you are still doing word processing on an Amiga, you might want to checkout the Raspberry Pi, it can run LibreOffice and it only costs $35.
Please enlighten me with a link regarding LibreOffice on BSD’s. In return, I wil enlighten you with a link regarding the modern Amiga world. http://www.a-eon.com/?news=30-12-2012
Besides, I neither want to use LibreOffice on BSD nor on AmigaOS, it’s just that the above sentence is too much marketing. LO is not available on every desktop OS.
On FreeBSD:
To install:
# pkg install libreoffice
To run:
% libreoffice
Will they implement javascript as THE language for macros?
Wasn’t Calligra first on android? And WebOdf the first open ODF app in the browser with an offline mode? Isn’t LO online just streamed ui rendered on served much like vnc? Then no offline mode I guess.
Calligra on Android is a viewer, while we are speaking about full feature applications. WebODF is a web application, and has no equivalent on any desktop operating system. LibreOffice is a desktop application for Linux, OS X and Windows, and will have equivalent applications on Android and online, sharing the same ODF files.
Lack of a feature in that version (coffice) does not mean LO was there before Calligra. Have you heard about Calligra Gemini?
It’s an editor too. There are countless Calligra-based apps in the appstore or developed as internal projects by various companies. They work and exist thanks to small codebase and fraction of the effort needed to make that work. Because Calligra is a framework too.
I am saying this only to show what kind of task it is.
I can tell you that it’s possible because Calligra wouldn’t have to work on its own UI framework but uses one that’s maintained at an industry standard level. Qt. Now being ported to version 5.
LO has own framework and unless it’s ported somehow, Android version will have to be a forked code that uses the “native” android framewoek. As I see it, there is no separation in LO between visuals and the business logic necessary to make it work with a single codebase in so different patterns as mobile and desktop. All you do on the desktop is skinning the UI elements. This is not going to work on mobile.
If and when LO comes in this shape, based on the Android framework (just guessing), how easily would it run on iOS, Windows Phone and other platforms? Another forks needed?
I am not sure what the rest of your post adds to the discussion. WebODF uses and promotes ODF and is a real browser technology compared to LO’s streaming screen snapshots to the browser’s area. The latter approach makes most desktop applications displayable on mobile devices but this doesn’t mean the apps will be 1% closer to mobile – no touch response, no gestures for sure. Zero offline mode. Users have to buy a heavy data plan to make it work…
Please at least switch the name to Online LibreOffice, because the acronym LOO would be problematic
I hope they make Libreoffice easier to program, like VBA for Excel, and better documentation for macro programming. There are hardly any good books in the market to learn Libreoffice macro programming.
humm, do you know OwnCloud ?, would be nice if become OwnCloud an snapin /Plugin with LibreOffice
if’s an own Cloud, so why not an Possibility for use the own cloud OwnCoud 🙂
and by the way, i am very happy to be happen the Web-Soultion of Libre Office !
an really nice Goal ! For all in the web, and for this i say thank you.. very much!
best regards
Blacky