[dba-Tech] Open365

[Martin Reid]

Where do they store the data I.e which country
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From: Jim Lawrence<mailto:accessd at shaw.ca>
Sent: ‎23/‎04/‎2016 03:52
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues<mailto:dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: [dba-Tech] Open365

Hi All:

Now anyone can have or use their own online, Cloudbased or intranet fully collaborative 365 office suite. Teams from the following companies assembled this package; LibreOffice (the full office package, word, spreadsheet, so on), with Seafile (super fast internet syncing engine), KDE (Scalable Vector Graphics), ownCloud tech and much more.

An owner and operator of this new suite has many choices. The suite can be remotely hosted, managed by local staff via internal servers and/or company Cloud servers.

Like Google docs and Microsoft's 365 Office suite, all the packages are collaborative or can be used by a single person. All Microsoft data protocol standards are used and can be managed and can be swapped back and forth. There is a full suite of online software for file and user managing, sharing deployment and saving. As the LibreOffice suite package has a fully operational desktop suite when off-line, the Office can be used....and then just synced up when back on line.

There is no question that this product is a direct challenge against Microsoft's domination in the office suite market...Microsoft's largest money stream. Just naming the application Open365 is a bit cheeky to say the least.

Quote from the developer: "Open365 is 100% open source. You can download it and deploy to your own servers or use it online for free."

The server is in its finally development and testing phase but the client is already available for online hosting and group collaborative efforts. Of course it runs on all operating systems, supports around 40 languages and the online version runs on all browsers and virtually all platforms (PCs, tablets and smartphones...sorry no Windows phone support support...yet).  PS: I have even run the client up on a Raspberry PI.

A reddit link claims the Github effort, in creating Open365, has assembled and used over a thousand techs, from all over the world. If you are a larger company with a healthy tech budget this may not seem particularly important but if you are any large or small public enterprises, schools, universities, municipalities, small businesses, or charitable organizations, the potential of saving around $70US per year, per person might be attractive.

If you wish to try it out, you can download the client from https://open365.io/download.html/, be remotely hosted and sign up for the full server beta edition.

Check it all out at: https://open365.io/

In summary: How big is this challenge to Microsoft? Who knows but regardless, MS can not ignore this so both products Office365 and Open365 will only improve.

Jim
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