LibreOffice OnLine Will Be A Real Competitor To Microsoft Office 365

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Swapnil: What is the goal of LibreOffice Online? Is it going to
compete with Google Docs or Microsoft Docs? How different will it be
from these two and by when will it be available? Charles: LibreOffice
OnLine will not be a competitor to Google Docs, because we will offer
from day one the same features that are already provided by
LibreOffice on the desktop, plus collaboration features. The way
people use Google Docs is in fact very different. People use Google
docs for collaboration first, and they use it for simple documents.

Also, it's important to note that Google, who is one of our
foundational sponsors, offers a document storage service with Google
Docs. With LibreOffice OnLine, you will have the choice of the
document storage: The Document Foundation will not be offering
LibreOffice OnLine as a service, we will only develop the
software. Basically, you could be able to use documents from your
Google Docs storage into LibreOffice OnLine and save them back into
your Google Docs list. You could plug it to DropBox, to an Unhosted
storage provider or to a peer-to-peer storage service. Alternatively,
we also expect that organizations will also want to host their own
documents, so syncing documents by webdav, which is already possible
via a LibreOffice extension, will be another way to use a document
storage.

LibreOffice OnLine will however be a real competitor to Microsoft
Office 365, the web version of Microsoft Office. We will have more
features than Microsoft Office 365 and we will not be sending
informations to whatever special agency, even when the solution is
hosted inside the user's organization, which is unfortunately the case
with Office 365.

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