The tool is based on the LibreOffice Online project and the open-source own Cloud Server self-hosting cloud storage solution. The companies made an announcement regarding the initial preview of CODE (Collabora Online Development Edition). CODE is a tool designed to give its users a virtual machine that has the LibreOffice Online and own Cloud Server project. This will permit its users to edit office documents like Word, spreadsheets, and presentations through the web-based interface of own Cloud. “LibreOffice Online is what the name suggests – an online version of the well known LibreOffice suite of productivity apps. ‘Collabora and LibreOffice Online’ integrated into own Cloud Server brings these powerful productivity features to own Cloud users. No other cloud technology offers the quality of rendering LibreOffice brings to the browser and this development edition already offers a wide range of features, with more to come,” said the Collabora representatives. Jos Poortvliet, own Cloud Community Manager, informed Soft pedia that Collabora had employed a team of developers for the Libre Online project to include more features into it and also to employ LibreOffice Online for own Cloud on a large scale. It was soon discovered that the Libre Online tool may soon vanish as CODE gets released.
