They describe themselves as an open source software company, "A disruptive open source software company", Open Xchange, a team of developers of the famous OpenOffice office suite has announced the release of OX Documents, a cloud-based office suite that runs in any web browser, highlighting OX Text as a word processing tool.
At the beginning of April will be the moment chosen by the project staff to launch the first version of this tool under GNU license and Creative Commons (GNU General Public License 2 and Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5). With the launch, two other applications that will be part of this suite, Presentation and Spreadsheets, will also be announced, tools that, as can be seen by their names, will allow us to make our presentations and create or manage our spreadsheets, in addition to working with our texts with the aforementioned OX Text.
The software offers us directly the possibility to edit the text formats belonging to Microsoft Word (.docx) and OpenOffice / LibreOffice (.odt). It will also be possible way text editing collaborative manner.that is, multiple users will be able to view and edit the content of the same document in real time based on the «structured collaboration«, In addition to allowing us to handle types of documents of many other formats.
One of the most important features of these applications is the non-destructive support for formats belonging to Microsoft and OpenOffice / LibreOffice, which means that XML-based documents can be read, edited and saved in the original format with a degree of fidelity that has never been previously obtained in an application with these characteristics (remember that we are talking about a web based apps).
Open-Xchange will provide commercial licenses that will offer us support for telecommunications and mobile operators, hosting companies, cloud companies, VAR's and SI's to enable their SaaS, management of services and strategies on mobile technologies.
In case of using this software for personal use, for charitable or non-profit organizations, we can use it completely free of charge.
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