LibreOffice is going to the Cloud, iPad and Android

October 15, 2011

LibreOffice - is a fork of the open-source project OpenOffice, which was founded after Sun acquisition by Oracle last year. The development team, which stands behind the LibreOffice calls itself the Document Foundation and aims to develop a free and open-source alternative to commercial office suites. Google and Red Hat are also involved in the development of LibreOffice. So, this LibreOffice is quite serious in its plans and is going not only inherit the glory and the user base of the OpenOffice, but also step on the Microsoft's tail. This week, the Document Foundation announced that in 2012 it will launch the online version - LibreOffice Online, which will work on HTML5, as well as mobile versions of the office suite for iPad and Android tablets.

At the moment LibreOffice has 25 million users, and this week it was announced that French municipalities and educational institutions are going to transfer 800 thousand seats to LibreOffice.

LibreOffice supports ODF and MS Office documents and works on on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.