This would be a significant growth of scope and not in line with the original mission of the project. The Document Foundation is not planning to develop and fund a cloud solution similar to existing products from Google and Microsoft, because this would require selection and integration of the other technologies needed for deployment - file sharing, authentication, load balancing and so on - which for desktop LibreOffice is part of the operating system provided by the user. As such, LibreOffice Online can be considered an enabling technology for the public cloud of ISPs or the private cloud of enterprises and large organizations, when integrated - for example - with an enterprise file sharing or a groupware solution.

To be fully functional, it has to be integrated with file access and authentication provision from an underlying stack of software.įor anything more than casual use it also needs to be deployed with due consideration for load balancing and other scaling issues. It does not include any form of file system. LibreOffice Online is a server service built from the main LibreOffice project code, which provides display and collaborative visual editing of a range of document types in a web browser.

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