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LibreOffice claims to be one of the world's best free and open source office suites. Users can download the app for any desktop OS, or it can run on a virtual platform on Chrome OS, Firefox OS and iOS. Additionally, LibreOffice is currently in development for Android.
Even with its wide availability, the company has yet to create its software for the cloud. That changed today when it announced LibreOffice Online.
In order to create LibreOffice Online, the organization collaborated with IceWarp for its synchronization software, and Collabora, a company that has expertise with helping companies take the open source route. According to The Document Foundation, the organization behind LibreOffice, the process of getting LibreOffice online started in 2011 with a running prototype of the online version using HTML5.
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LibreOffice Online sounds like a good online office suites for people with computers with not enough free space on their PC to install the desktop version of LibreOffice on their storage drive, but their computer is constantly connected to the internet, or networked server with a copy of LibreOffice Online installed on it making it possible to use Libreoffice online or on a networked server connected to their PC.
I wonder if it would be possible in the future to install LibreOffice Writer onto WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and the many other blogging and CMS/Content Management software, so bloggers and writers can use a full office writer program instead of the pre-installed writer program which came with WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal.
