Re: No LibreOffice Online?

No LibreOffice Online? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-31 10:56 (#2QR)

Wait, what? The web based (oh 'scuse me, CLOUD! SAAS!!) feature has been planned or promised going on 3 years. I've been waiting for it to be fully cooked so people can get the heck off GApps and self-host their own web office suite.

And now it's been dropped from the latest version? I hope I'm misinterpreting.

Re: No LibreOffice Online? (Score: 2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-01 10:48 (#2R7)

My interpretation is that they've got round to releasing 4.2 to the cloud service, but 4.3 is coming.

rollApp (the cloud platform they're using) itself is in beta, so they're probably feeling the water with a version that's been out a while, so that they can tell if any bugs are cloud-related.

Btw, the difference between a web-app and SaaS, is that a web-app is written for a browser (usually in Javascript or PHP), whereas SaaS is written for a traditional platform (in C++ or whatever), then virtualized, and accessed by clients through a VNC-like web interface. The web-app in this context is the thing that is rendering the virtualized display buffer to the browser, the SaaS is the virtualized x86 code execution environment.

'Cloud' is an ill-defined buzzword that can mean anything internet/local-network based.