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Re:Ask HN: What is the best hosted open source alternative t... by franga2000 on Friday August 24, 2018 @05:41AM (#17833842)
OnlyOffice (https://www.onlyoffice.com/) is the only one that I believe comes very close to either of these. It has several components that can be used individually or together, I believe all AGPL-licensed. They have fully featured in-browser editors for documents, spreadsheets and presentations that can be used with their document management system (also very good) or integrated into Nextcloud (or similar). There's also a PMS, CRM, E-mail and calendar.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best hosted open source alternative t... by rahimnathwani on Friday August 24, 2018 @09:17AM (#17834727)
In case anyone else had difficulty finding the source code link on the web site: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE
Re:Ask HN: What is the best hosted open source alternative t... by gpresot on Sunday August 26, 2018 @10:02AM (#17845968)
Some words of caution about moving away from mainstream products like Office (or Gsuite, to a certain extent). Most alternatives have today very good features, but inter-operability between platforms remain somewhat an issue. Arguably my experience of this is a bit dated (2 years) but at the time there were still issues on format conversions. It is less of a problem with .doc formats (though I found Libreoffice messing up on how these are converted to/from, for example when images where embedded between text), but if you work with spreadsheets in a meaningful way (i.e. you build heavy models and financial projections, with pivot tables etc.) can you afford to doubt whether a file will operate as intended once converted to/from xlsx when you need to share it with someone outside your team/company? Gsuite is much more basic, in terms of features, than Excel so i believe this is less of a problem.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best hosted open source alternative t... by brudgers on Friday August 24, 2018 @10:14AM (#17835036)
Re:Ask HN: What is the best hosted open source alternative t... by dreix on Friday August 24, 2018 @09:51AM (#17834916)
What about nextcloudd's office solution? I'm interested too. Thinking about giving it a try for our school network which already runs its own nextcloud instance.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best hosted open source alternative t... by O_H_E on Sunday August 26, 2018 @12:01AM (#17844173)
Huh, nice. May I ask what school is that
Re:Ask HN: What is the best hosted open source alternative t... by ohiovr on Friday August 24, 2018 @08:21PM (#17838798)
If you like open office you might like the collabora code app for Nextcloud.