The first stable version of the open-source web office suite Euro-Office has been released. This was announced by the leading project partners Nextcloud and Ionos. Euro-Office aims to enable companies, authorities, and other organizations to jointly create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and to become independent of proprietary offerings such as Microsoft Office or Google Docs.
"Our top priority was to provide a version that users can actually work with. Initially, we cleaned up the code, implemented some security updates, and integrated Euro Office into existing solutions," summarizes Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek on the project status. Local desktop and mobile applications are not yet available; they are the next step on the list. Full support for open standards like ODF is also a priority. "This will be at the very top of the agenda for the next version," says Karlitschek.
Euro-Office is initially intended to be integrated primarily as an office module in the collaboration tools of the partners. In addition to Ionos and Nextcloud, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, BTactic, Open-Xchange, and Office.eu are also on board as project partners. Ionos and Nextcloud are building a development team for Euro-Office, according to their own statements, and the first positions have already been filled.
