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 global private company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with offices in Cambridge and Montreal. It provides open-source consultancy, training and products to companies. [2]

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Collabora's initial focus was instant messaging (IM), Voice over IP (VoIP) and videoconferencing technologies, but the company has since expanded its offering to include general multimedia, mobile web technologies, collaboration infrastructure, automotive infotainment platforms, graphics optimization, multimedia interoperability & productivity software. Collabora's department Collabora Productivity is the main developer of LibreOffice. [3] [4] [5] [6]

In 2015, the Crown Commercial Service announced the introduction of Collabora GovOffice and Collabora CloudSuite in all non-profit making government organisations. [7]

Projects sponsored or founded by Collabora

The company announced a collaboration with IceWarp to work on LibreOffice Online. [10] [11] [12]
On 15 December 2015, the company announced partnership with ownCloud and release of CODE (Collabora Online Development Edition), a distribution of LibreOffice Online and ownCloud Server. [13] [14]
On 2 June 2016, the company released Collabora Online 1.0 "Engine", which the company calls the first production grade version of Collabora Online. [15]
On 2 November 2016, the company released CODE 2.0 which includes "the latest and most requested feature from customers: collaborative editing." [16]
Branded versions of LibreOffice include LibreOffice-From-Collabora, Collabora Office, Collabora Online and Collabora GovOffice.
Collabora Online is shipped with NextCloud Server. [17]

Participations and memberships

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References

  1. ↑ "Collabora Limited". Endole. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. ↑ "About - Open Source Consulting | Collabora". Collabora | Open Source Consulting.
  3. ↑ "Collabora expands with new Multimedia Division". Archived from the original on 2011-08-29.
  4. ↑ "Collabora Productivity targets a marketplace of one billion desktops". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21.
  5. ↑ Mark Wilson (2015-03-25). "LibreOffice moves to the cloud to take on Office Online and Google Docs". BetaNews.com.
  6. ↑ Michael Meeks (2023-09-23). "Collabora & LibreOffice, Working together to make Open Source rock".
  7. ↑ "Collabora deal will provide savings on Open Source office software". gov.uk. 13 August 2024.
  8. ↑ "Collabora Productivity targets a marketplace of one billion desktops". 3 September 2013. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
  9. ↑ "SUSE Partners with Collabora to Deliver Commercial LibreOffice Support". SUSE. 3 September 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "LibreOffice in the browser, revealed in 2011, finally close to reality". Ars Technica. 25 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "LibreOffice moves to the cloud to take on Office Online and Google Docs". BetaNews. 25 March 2015.
  12. ↑ Silviu Stahie (20 October 2015). "UK Government Kicks Out Microsoft Office and Adopts LibreOffice". softpedia.
  13. ↑ "Collabora and ownCloud announce Partnership and release CODE for LibreOffice Online developers" (Press release). Collabora Productivity. 15 December 2015. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  14. ↑ "Collabora brings LibreOffice Online to ownCloud". ownCloud, Inc. 15 December 2015. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  15. ↑ "Collabora Productivity releases Collabora Online 1.0 "Engine" for Hosters and Clouds" (Press release). Collabora Productivity. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2016. Collabora Productivity, the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the Cloud, has released the first production grade version of Collabora Online, its flagship cloud document suite solution.
  16. ↑ "Collabora Online Development Edition 2.0 released - Collabora Productivity". Collabora Productivity. 2016-11-02. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  17. ↑ Nextcloud. "Collabora Online Office – Nextcloud". Nextcloud. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
  18. ↑ "Pitivi - flexible video editing for the desktop and beyond". Collabora's Pitivi product page. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  19. ↑ "Introducing: Monado". Collabora | Open Source Consulting. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  20. ↑ "Introducing Zink, an OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan". Collabora | Open Source Consulting. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  21. ↑ "Introducing NVK". Collabora | Open Source Consulting. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  22. ↑ afrantzis (2017-07-12). "vkmark: more than a Vulkan benchmark". A mind forever voyaging. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
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