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- Category
- Office · Self-host
- Cost
- Self-host
- Country
- UK
- Licensing
- FOSS
- Platforms
- Web · Linux
Pros and cons
+ what works
- +Full data ownership when self-hosted
- +High fidelity with .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, and OpenDocument formats via the LibreOffice core
- +Integrates with Nextcloud, ownCloud, Moodle, Mattermost, and others
- +Active upstream backed by long-term LibreOffice contributors
− watch out for
- −Free CODE build is positioned for home and small teams; production deployments are nudged toward Collabora's paid builds
- −Resource-heavy; one user session can consume a CPU and several hundred MB of RAM
- −Setup is non-trivial behind a reverse proxy with WOPI integration
- −Some enterprise patches and integrations are paid-only
Privacy notes
Documents stay on the operator's server. Collabora Online does not phone home from the core service. Rendering happens server-side and is streamed to browsers, so a document never leaves the host without being explicitly shared. The product is developed by Collabora Productivity Ltd in Cambridge, UK, and is the collaborative-editing engine behind Nextcloud Office. Operational privacy depends on the operator hardening TLS, backups, and the integration host (Nextcloud, ownCloud, EGroupware, and others).
Tags
#foss · #libreoffice · #self-hosted · #groupware
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