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I want to see Collabora Office integrated as a Google Workspace app. I understand that others want to host their own servers, but I want the longevity of ODF combined with the convenience of a hosted environment like Workspace. I would think that governments that mandate ODF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_adoption) would want the convenience of an online version of LibreOffice combined with a native desktop application suite.

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If you are using either one of the following portal it's basically under the name of "Online Office" (there's also mail, cloud and other services similar to what Google has): https://web.de/ https://gmx.net/ https://mail.com

The first two is mainly for German users, the last one is for international ones.

I doubt they want to tie their fortunes to Google, especially given that Google is one of their competitors. Furthermore, Collabora produces mostly (maybe all?) libre software, so integrating with Google doesn't mesh with that.

Collabora Office is integrated with NextCloud though.

Thanks, that's what I think their position is. But there are plenty of apps in the Google Workspace Marketplace that are competitive with Google's: LucidChart, draw.io, Zoho, etc. I'm sure these apps more than pay for their integration development costs with new subscription revenue.

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