And this is that.Ĭollabora has a culture of working in the open, and contributing to FLOSS – we call that ‘Open First’. We want a place where people can try out the latest, unstable development work and get involved with that easily. Meeks: Clearly this is not a product brand that’s just the happy co-incidence of the name of our development edition. Is CODE the final name or you have something ‘secret’ for later?
As it happens we have some great friends at ownCloud from previous experiences at SUSE and openSUSE, it’s good to work together. We naturally built on their great foundation, to integrate the development work we’ve been doing around Collabora Online so that people can more easily get involved there. Meeks: ownCloud provides a great, open source, secure enterprise file sync and share product, as you know, and have done some work integrating document editing into that. We are very happy that we could finally announce this. Karlitschek: We and Collabora have been discussing and working on this for a year now. What kind of collaboration was there between ownCloud and Collabora on this? įor CloudSuite, as and when it is released, clearly enterprise and government customers who want a mature, stable and dependable product, which we would support via one of our partners. Meeks: For CODE clearly developers and very early adopters who want to see what is possible in this space those who like to see and play with something new and fun. Meeks: You can expect us to be working hard on collaborative editing and making the user interface richer over the next year. What kind of features can users expect in the future? From a corporate perspective I want to grow Collabora Productivity’s revenue such that we can attract yet more top talent to invest in LibreOffice. Meeks: “World domination” is a bit hackneyed, but getting a great quality free software office suite out there, and making it easier to re-use it in lots of places would be excellent. What’s your objective/goal with LibreOffice online? Will there be a pricing tier for corporate users? Will it be free of cost for home users? There will be a preconfigured virtual machine (VM) for example. We won’t offer a hosted service but we will make it easy for users to run it. Karlitschek: It will be downloadable from. That will come with long term support, security, maintenance, etc., but I’d really like to focus on only the community side for now. Again, to re-emphasise this, this is a development edition we will be releasing Collabora CloudSuite in the new year with our partners. Clearly this is a huge strength of an open source solution. Meeks: You can download now and have a go. That’s why we encourage developers to download a virtual machine to host it, and hack on it where they want to, and to get involved with the development.Ĭan users download it and host it themselves or will it remain a service? We don’t have a gigantic advertising business to cross-subsidise that. Collabora will certainly not be hosting an alternative to Google Docs. In terms of hosting, Collabora will work with many cloud vendors – of whom ownCloud is an excellent Open Source example – to integrate this into other products. Meeks: Design-wise it is more similar to Office 365 the bulk of the complexity occurs on the server, although the client can cache a lot of data to give good zoom/pan responsiveness.
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