Karlitschek plans to introduce a new product based on Euro-Office into its Nextcloud Hub, he told Computerworld, though pricing and availability are yet to be confirmed.
Nextcloud currently provides productivity apps from OnlyOffice and Collabora as part of its Nextcloud Hub suite. Both have drawbacks, according to Karlitschek: Collabora’s software is built on LibreOffice, a fork of OpenOffice, and has usability limitations, he said. (Nextcloud will continue to offer Collabora as an option to customers, however, and some of Collabora’s code will be incorporated into Euro-Office software.) With regards to OnlyOffice, Karlitschek cited customer concerns about the owner company’s supposed roots in Russia.
Nextcloud, Proton, and Ionos have each allocated “two-digit” numbers of developers to development of Euro-Office, said Karlitschek, with others contributing on a slightly smaller scale.
