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Too little too late. Most “office collab” is going cloud. Neither Google nor MS are threatened by free/open thick client alternatives. Users will still need

by mc32 5y ago

Too little too late. Most “office collab” is going cloud. Neither Google nor MS are threatened by free/open thick client alternatives. Users will still need their onedrive googledrive for collab. Admittedly some work is non collab but more and more of that gets pushed to SaaS.

nivenkos 5y ago
That's less of an issue though as it's a bit easier to migrate. If everything were already on Linux, then switching cloud providers is much simpler than switching the desktop systems themselves. Also from my own enterprise experience, Office 365 cloud has still got a long way to go.
- mc32 5y ago
  It depends. If you have regulations that influence retention and audit trail etc it’s less easy to migrate.
- Yizahi 5y ago
  That's the thing though - if cloud office has 80-90% of functionality of common desktop office then it's completely covers open source office value proposition. And for the rest several percent of power users open office is still lacking and not an option to switch.
GoblinSlayer 5y ago
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/ https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/
yorwba 5y ago
I think this is Schleswig-Holstein's nextcloud instance: https://infonext.schleswig-holstein.de/nextcloud/index.php/login https://infonext.schleswig-holstein.de/nextcloud/index.php/l...
jimnotgym 5y ago
Even more, on 365 you can have the full desktop app, with fully integrated cloud collaboration and storage