

While ownCloud Documents offers an online collaborative editor that can handle Rich Text Formats, CODE offers a complete productivity suite. But there is a big difference between the two products.

This is interesting because ownCloud already has ‘ownCloud Documents’ that has collaborative features. Other functionality, such as collaborative editing, is in the pipeline. At the moment users can create new documents and edit them. Currently there are three apps: writer (equivalent to MS Word), spreadsheet (Excel) and presentation (PowerPoint). The rendering happens at the client side. That’s where all the processing and heavy lifting is done. The office suite implementation runs on ownCloud server.

With good support for key industry file formats, including text documents (docx, doc, odt, pdf…), spreadsheets (xslx, xsl, ods,…) and presentations (pptx, ppt, odp,…).” to release a developer edition of online LibreOffice, which they call CODE (Collabora Online Development Edition).Ĭollabora Productivity said in a press statement that CODE “allows prototype editing of richly formatted documents from a web browser. Collabora Productivity, a UK-based consulting company has collaborated with ownCloud Inc.
