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. Re: No LibreOffice Online? (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-01 18:56 (#2RC) No no. I'm not talking about the commercial paid/ad-supported remote desktop service version!I'm talking about "LibreOffice Online", which has been in development as PART of LibreOffice for years now, since v.3.5. You just install it in your own server (regular old desktop LO) and it has its own web server that let's you use the apps via a browser. No 3rd party required at all! And yet they've let this killer feature just fester, even to the point that a knowledgeable commenter assumes I'm talking about something else. It's tragic. Re: No LibreOffice Online? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-01 19:24 (#2RE) And/or he was simply correcting me because I didn't follow TFLink and the article was talking about the Rollapp service to begin with? :)Ah well, points about MIA LibreOffice Online stand.
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. Re: No LibreOffice Online? (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-01 18:56 (#2RC) No no. I'm not talking about the commercial paid/ad-supported remote desktop service version!I'm talking about "LibreOffice Online", which has been in development as PART of LibreOffice for years now, since v.3.5. You just install it in your own server (regular old desktop LO) and it has its own web server that let's you use the apps via a browser. No 3rd party required at all! And yet they've let this killer feature just fester, even to the point that a knowledgeable commenter assumes I'm talking about something else. It's tragic. Re: No LibreOffice Online? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-01 19:24 (#2RE) And/or he was simply correcting me because I didn't follow TFLink and the article was talking about the Rollapp service to begin with? :)Ah well, points about MIA LibreOffice Online stand.
Re: No LibreOffice Online? (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-01 18:56 (#2RC) No no. I'm not talking about the commercial paid/ad-supported remote desktop service version!I'm talking about "LibreOffice Online", which has been in development as PART of LibreOffice for years now, since v.3.5. You just install it in your own server (regular old desktop LO) and it has its own web server that let's you use the apps via a browser. No 3rd party required at all! And yet they've let this killer feature just fester, even to the point that a knowledgeable commenter assumes I'm talking about something else. It's tragic. Re: No LibreOffice Online? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-01 19:24 (#2RE) And/or he was simply correcting me because I didn't follow TFLink and the article was talking about the Rollapp service to begin with? :)Ah well, points about MIA LibreOffice Online stand.
Re: No LibreOffice Online? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-01 19:24 (#2RE) And/or he was simply correcting me because I didn't follow TFLink and the article was talking about the Rollapp service to begin with? :)Ah well, points about MIA LibreOffice Online stand.