4 ms·

Ask HN: What is the best hosted open source alternative to Gsuite or office 365

20 points by sahin-boydas 8y ago

franga2000 8y ago
OnlyOffice (https://www.onlyoffice.com/ https://www.onlyoffice.com/) is the only one that I believe comes very close to either of these. It has several components that can be used individually or together, I believe all AGPL-licensed. They have fully featured in-browser editors for documents, spreadsheets and presentations that can be used with their document management system (also very good) or integrated into Nextcloud (or similar). There's also a PMS, CRM, E-mail and calendar.
- rahimnathwani 8y ago
  In case anyone else had difficulty finding the source code link on the web site: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE
dreix 8y ago
What about nextcloudd's office solution? I'm interested too. Thinking about giving it a try for our school network which already runs its own nextcloud instance.
- O_H_E 8y ago
  Huh, nice. May I ask what school is that
brudgers 8y ago
LibreOffice online: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_Online https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_... https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/ https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
ohiovr 8y ago
If you like open office you might like the collabora code app for Nextcloud.
gpresot 8y ago
Some words of caution about moving away from mainstream products like Office (or Gsuite, to a certain extent). Most alternatives have today very good features, but inter-operability between platforms remain somewhat an issue. Arguably my experience of this is a bit dated (2 years) but at the time there were still issues on format conversions. It is less of a problem with .doc formats (though I found Libreoffice messing up on how these are converted to/from, for example when images where embedded between text), but if you work with spreadsheets in a meaningful way (i.e. you build heavy models and financial projections, with pivot tables etc.) can you afford to doubt whether a file will operate as intended once converted to/from xlsx when you need to share it with someone outside your team/company? Gsuite is much more basic, in terms of features, than Excel so i believe this is less of a problem.

20 points by sahin-boydas 8y ago

franga2000 8y ago

OnlyOffice (https://www.onlyoffice.com/ https://www.onlyoffice.com/) is the only one that I believe comes very close to either of these. It has several components that can be used individually or together, I believe all AGPL-licensed. They have fully featured in-browser editors for documents, spreadsheets and presentations that can be used with their document management system (also very good) or integrated into Nextcloud (or similar). There's also a PMS, CRM, E-mail and calendar.

rahimnathwani 8y ago
In case anyone else had difficulty finding the source code link on the web site: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE

dreix 8y ago

What about nextcloudd's office solution? I'm interested too. Thinking about giving it a try for our school network which already runs its own nextcloud instance.

O_H_E 8y ago
Huh, nice. May I ask what school is that

brudgers 8y ago

LibreOffice online: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_Online https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice_... https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/ https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/

ohiovr 8y ago

If you like open office you might like the collabora code app for Nextcloud.

gpresot 8y ago

Some words of caution about moving away from mainstream products like Office (or Gsuite, to a certain extent). Most alternatives have today very good features, but inter-operability between platforms remain somewhat an issue. Arguably my experience of this is a bit dated (2 years) but at the time there were still issues on format conversions. It is less of a problem with .doc formats (though I found Libreoffice messing up on how these are converted to/from, for example when images where embedded between text), but if you work with spreadsheets in a meaningful way (i.e. you build heavy models and financial projections, with pivot tables etc.) can you afford to doubt whether a file will operate as intended once converted to/from xlsx when you need to share it with someone outside your team/company? Gsuite is much more basic, in terms of features, than Excel so i believe this is less of a problem.