I've been testing it and it seems like a good solution for general productivity and a great option for people migrating from MS. It's open source and cross-platform, but I just don't see it in any conversations about office software.

For me, it's so far leagues beyond LibreOffice. I really need something that works on my phone and syncs across devices, and allows collaboration. OnlyOffice seems to fit the bill. It's also far more intuitive to my preferences.

I am sure that some people wouldn't like the fact that the interface runs as a webapp, or use of Java, but it's strange to me that it's not usually even in the conversation.

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[–] steeznson@lemmy.world -5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

Back in the day it was just OpenOffice and LibreOffice. When did OnlyOffice come out? And, more importantly, did they call it that after OnlyFans became famous for some reason?

Edit: have done some googling and I thibk personally I'll be sticking with Libreoffice. I can see the utility for Windows folks making a switch but I often find open source tools which do not try to copy the proprietary alternative. Some of the best FOSS like Krita were successful because they broke the mold of slavishly copying UX and tools from bigger companies. Ditto with Godot to an extent.

Btw it was indeed called OnlyOffice after OF had taken off. Their name change was in 2022. Maybe I can sub to clippy and get him to uncurl! FOSS projects are so bad with naming and logos.

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 week ago (11 children)

It’s developed by a Russian owned company (Ascensio System SIA).

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

they're trying harder to hide that now. as of last year, a sg-based holding company owns a uk-based company which owns the original developer, the software, and numerous regional branch offices.

kinda sucks, because it is a nice program. doesn't have feature parity with microsoft office, but it's got pretty much everything that most users need or would want. it's also horribly slow on lower-spec hardware.

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I was not able to convince my wife to use LibreOffice instead of Office365, but OnlyOffice was an easy sell. I really enjoy it myself as well.

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

On their page it says: "## Ascensio System SIA - home of the ONLYOFFICE

ONLYOFFICE is a project developed by experienced IT experts from Ascensio System SIA, leading IT company with headquarters in Riga, Latvia. Originally ONLYOFFICE was designed for internal team collaboration.

An attempt to introduce it to a wider audience proved to be successful: ONLYOFFICE received very positive feedback from the Internet community. As a result, its functionality was considerably revised and expanded that brought about a high and stable growth of users from different countries.

Nowadays, ONLYOFFICE is an international, open source project with employees and contributors in more than 30 countries. The holding company in Singapore unites our offices around the world under the ONLYOFFICE brand. For now, we have departments in Riga, Singapore, London, Dallas, Belgrade, Yerevan and Tashkent. Would like to join our big open source family? Check how to become a contributor or discover job openings."

https://www.onlyoffice.com/about.aspx

Hmm..you seem to be at least partially right.

"In 2009, a group of software developers from Ascensio System SIA (Latvian-based) and New Communication Technologies (Russian-based) launched a project called TeamLab, a platform for internal team collaboration.[32]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice

[–] datendefekt@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My hot take: of it's open source and they don't receive money from me, I don't really care.

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[–] iuvi@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 week ago

so what? europe stirp sanctions from russian oligarchs and also make money by taking gap in sanctions on oil, gas and mineral resources sucking them from russia sponsoring war

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[–] Redkey@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Where are these conversations happening? I could see a lot of enterprise-focused groups potentially getting behind OnlyOffice, but individual home users? Not so much.

EDIT: My mistake! I didn't realize that there are standalone versions of OnlyOffice in addition to the web app version.

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[–] mydude@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I have the same feeling

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