Collabora

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Collabora Ltd
Company type Private limited company
IndustrySoftware Consulting, Software Products, Open Source
FoundedJuly 2005 (2005-07)
FounderRobert McQueen and Robert Taylor [1]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Philippe Kalaf, Michael Meeks, Guy Lunardi
Products Telepathy Communications framework, GStreamer, Webkit, Blink, DLNA, LibreOffice, Collabora Online, Wayland, PulseAudio
Services Open source consultancy and engineering
Number of employees
>100
Website collabora.com

Collabora Ltd is a private open-source software consulting company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with an additional office in Montreal. It provides consulting, training, and product development services to organizations using open-source technologies. [2]

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Collabora is best known for developing Collabora Online, a online office suite that enables collaborative editing in a browser, and Collabora Office, a desktop office productivity software suite. Both are based on LibreOffice and marketed as open-source alternatives to proprietary platforms such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. These products are developed and maintained by the company's Collabora Productivity division, which is one of the largest contributors to the LibreOffice codebase. [3] [4] [5]

Originally focused on instant messaging, Voice over IP (VoIP), and videoconferencing, Collabora has since expanded into areas including multimedia, web technologies, graphics optimization, extended reality (XR), automotive infotainment, and productivity software for enterprise and government use. [6] [7]

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Projects contributed to

Operating system and infrastructure

Communication and multimedia

Productivity and applications

Participations and memberships

References

  1. "Collabora Limited". Endole. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. "About – Open Source Consulting". Collabora.
  3. "Collabora Productivity targets a marketplace of one billion desktops". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21.
  4. Mark Wilson (2015-03-25). "LibreOffice moves to the cloud to take on Office Online and Google Docs". BetaNews.
  5. Michael Meeks (2023-09-23). Collabora & LibreOffice: Working together to make Open Source rock.
  6. "Collabora expands with new Multimedia Division". Archived from the original on 2011-08-29.
  7. "Collabora deal will provide savings on Open Source office software". Gov.uk. 13 August 2024.
  8. "Introducing: Monado". Collabora. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  9. "Pitivi – flexible video editing for the desktop and beyond". Collabora's Pitivi product page. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  10. "Introducing NVK". Collabora. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  11. Afrantzis (12 July 2017). "vkmark: more than a Vulkan benchmark". A mind forever voyaging. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  12. "Introducing Zink, an OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan". Collabora. Retrieved 4 August 2019.