Nextcloud and Ionos are promising a modern, open-source office suite for the summer. To achieve this goal, they have forked OnlyOffice.

Nextcloud, Ionos and other partners are developing an open-source office suite under the project name „Euro-Office“ as an alternative to the market-dominant Microsoft Office.

The two partners are not starting from scratch, but have forked the components of OnlyOffice available as open-source code and want to build on them. In the summer, the software is then intended to replace the previous office component Collabora in Nextcloud and the Ionos Nextcloud Workspace. A ‘technical preview’ is already available on GitHub.

While this is a good news, I think they should move from github, you know microslop copilot…

  • sugarsweat@ani.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Are there any actually good replacements for Excel? As an intermediate/advanced user, every alternative I’ve tried to date pales in comparison. I can’t see anyone in my industry switching away from MS because of this, as things currently stand.

    Edit: I didn’t expect so many replies. I use Sync (I know, it sucks and is dead) and it didn’t inform me I had replies, so I’m only just seeing them, apologies. Can’t get to everyone though.

    For those who think we’re using Excel as a database, not really. Can’t get into specifics regarding industry, but personally I use Excel daily for a variety of things, none of which is data entry. I build stuff to help calculate and solve issues; I’m not following a specific process in most scenarios. 🤷

    • Kaiyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I hear this argument a lot but no one ever gives details as to what common features excel has vs say libreoffice. I’m really curious, because i’d like to contribute free time in this direction.

        • Quicky@piefed.socialEnglish
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          6 months ago

          I can only assume anyone still asking the question “is Excel really that much better than the alternatives?” lacks exposure to Power Query and its prevalence in business.

          • Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            6 months ago

            Anyone reaching for powerQuery in excel should not, and instead be reaching for something like PowerBI.

            • spamspeicher@feddit.orgEnglish
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              6 months ago

              So, I should use PowerBI when I get a weirdly formatted .txt file with data I want to analyze, get my insights, do calculations on etc. and will never use again after? Thats what I use PQ for, format/ combine data from different sources in a way I can use. I don’t need dashboards or fancy charts someone can click on.

              And no, python is not the tool for me. I am not getting paid to learn a programming language, I don’t have time for this at work. I would have to learn and program a lot of python to do what I can do in PQ in a few minutes. I don’t even know, if I am allowed to execute a self written python script on my work PC.