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France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded) (mastodon.social)
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[–] Trihilis@ani.social 39 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

While both of those are great software. Unless I'm not aware of something they aren't cloud/network based office suites like Google docs and office 365.

It seems this is an alternative to office software where you can work simultaneously and share documents in the same cloud/network.

I don't think there is an alternative to office 365 and Google docs at this point that is open source. So this seems like a great project and I'll definitely be considering it for our company.

[–] Exceptionhandler@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What about Collabora Online? It integrates nicely into Nextcloud, but I am not sure about pricing for business use.

https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-online/

Guide for self hosting: https://collabora-online-for-nextcloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install/

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks I'll definitely check that out. I've seen some posts about it working on Synology Nas devices so that's very interesting.

[–] CostcoFanboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

If you ever diverge away from proprietary Synology solution, NextCloud has 100% integration with Collabora too.

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There's onlyoffice for cloud based office

[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Onlyoffice seems a little slack on the security and updates. I saw the warnings in the desktop package, have they made sure the online offerings are secure?

[–] bishbosh@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

If there are issues like this, sounds like a good goal for a country that wants to divest from US tech companies.

[–] passenger@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago

There is nextcloud and others you can self host at least.