Euro-Office, announced in March, is billed as an open source, sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office for European organizations keen to reduce their reliance on US tech providers. It consists of four browser-based applications: a document editor, spreadsheet program, presentation tool, and a PDF editor — each enabling collaborative editing. Euro-Office documents can also be opened directly from the Nextcloud Files mobile app.
Nextcloud is one of several European companies that support Euro-Office, which is built on the open-source code base of OnlyOffice and distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL v3).
The integraton means Nextcloud users can now choose between two options in Nextcloud Office: Euro-Office and the existing Collabora integration.
“Euro-Office uses a different architectural approach that can result in a better performance in the browser, a different user experience…, so it’s important that this option is available,” Jos Poortvliet, Nextcloud co-founder and vice president of communications, said at the Tuesday event.