The LibreOffice office suite arrives in the cloud

Mar 25, 2015 14:12 GMT  ·  By

The Document Foundation, through Italo Vignoli, had the pleasure of informing Softpedia today, March 25, about a new product that is set to be released sometime in the near feature, called LibreOffice Online, which will attempt to be a free alternative to proprietary solutions like Google Docs and Office 365.

This is fantastic news for all open-source users around the world, as LibreOffice finally arrives in the cloud thanks to the soon-to-be-released LibreOffice Online platform, which will basically allow you to create all sorts of office documents online, from anywhere, independent of a computer operating system.

"Thanks to the increasing number of companies which are investing on the development of LibreOffice, we are on track to make it available on every platform, including the cloud. We are grateful to IceWarp for providing the resources for a further development of LibreOffice Online," says Eliane Domingos de Sousa, director of The Document Foundation.

Softpedia is extremely happy to see that The Document Foundation invests in a cloud platform, because this is clearly the future. LibreOffice Online is possible thanks to a joint development effort with the well-known IceWarp and Collabora companies.

While the development of LibreOffice Online started sometime in 2011 with a simple proof-of-concept front-end, the time has come for open-source office suite to get a state-of-the-art cloud application. At the moment, no date has been set for the release of LibreOffice Online.

Update: A very short sneak preview has been released online after the announcement of the LibreOffice Online platform, so make sure that you check the video below if you want to see LibreOffice Online in action. Thanks to Mihai Varga for creating the video.