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Microsoft alternative: Nextcloud and Ionos develop open-source ‘Euro-Office’

Microsoft alternative: Nextcloud and Ionos develop open-source ‘Euro-Office’ - Reddthat

>Nextcloud, Ionos and other partners are developing an open-source office suite under the project name „Euro-Office“ as an alternative to the market-dominant Microsoft Office. > >The two partners are not starting from scratch, but have forked the components of OnlyOffice available as open-source code and want to build on them. In the summer, the software is then intended to replace the previous office component Collabora in Nextcloud and the Ionos Nextcloud Workspace. A ‘technical preview’ is already available on GitHub [https://github.com/Euro-Office/]. While this is a good news, I think they should move from github, you know microslop copilot…

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sugarsweat 4d ago

Are there any real, actually good replacements for Excel? As a daily power user, every alternative I’ve tried to date pales in comparison.

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Kaiyo 4d ago

I hear this argument a lot but no one ever gives details as to what common features excel has vs say libreoffice. I’m really curious, because i’d like to contribute free time in this direction.

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r4mp 4d ago

What I always find missing in all these Excel vs. other spreadsheet software debates is the rationale for using a spreadsheet in the first place. I work a lot with large corporations, and it’s often the case that they can’t move away from Excel because, in the past, they relied on it to solve a process in a way that—at least today—could and should be handled better. Perhaps we should question the process more often and the Excel alternatives less.

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BackgrndNoize 3d ago

Exactly, spreadsheets themselves are the bottleneck, they worked back in the day but data and analytics have moved well beyond that, but companies refuse to migrate to a modern architecture because the dinosaurs in charge are afraid of change.

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Quicky

It’s nothing to do with fear, it’s down to cost, practicality, experience and security.

The one thing these people are not afraid of is change. Every senior management resource within every medium to large business wants to implement change.