Which is best for me? CODE, COOL or Collabora Office Classic?

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We are often asked which version of Collabora Online is best for particular user cases. With multiple tailored options available, we can help you find the perfect fit for your needs.

Collabora Online

Collabora Online is our flagship product. Collabora Online is excellent for organisations that need a powerful office suite which you can access remotely, whilst maintaining complete control over the server and network it’s hosted on.

It’s important to know that Collabora Online is not a stand-alone product – it can be integrated into a ready-made infrastructure, or accessed via one of our global hosting partners.

Features and Benefits:

• Secure Collaboration, Everywhere: Real-time collaboration on documents with your team, no matter where they are. Available in the browser, on Desktop and Mobile.
• Full Control: Retain complete control over your data with on-premise hosting or via a preferred hosting partner.
• Compatibility: Supports all major document formats including DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX.

Key Differentiators:

• Open Source: Unlike other office suites, Collabora Online is open-source, ensuring transparency and security.
• Flexible Hosting: Options for self-hosting or using trusted partners.
• Customisable: From integrating with existing infrastructures or tweaking the User Interface, there’s plenty of options to tailor to your needs.

We provide a range of support packages and expert advice from our in-house team of engineers. Support ranges from getting started and integrated, to maintenance, bug fixes and scaling.

Hosting and Cloud businesses who wish to include online office functionality into their service offering can integrate Collabora Online - find out more about our partner programme to add this functionality to your offering.

Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE)

CODE is the free development version, perfect for home use or small teams. It is built around the Collabora Office core and releases monthly, introducing the latest features. As an unsupported version, it’s best suited for non-production environments.

Find out how to download the latest version of CODE.

Collabora Office Classic

Collabora Office Classic is the enterprise-ready office suite, based on LibreOffice – the world’s most widely used Open Source office suite. You can download it on the Mac App Store, Windows Store and for Linux.

For businesses we provide installation and administration utilities, alongside long term maintenance and contracted support to make sure you stay up and running.

What applications are included?

All Collabora Online and Office products include:

• Writer: for text documents
• Calc: for spreadsheets
• Impress: for presentations
• Draw: for vector graphics

Installation and Support

We provide comprehensive installation and administration utilities, along with long-term maintenance and contracted support to ensure your business remains operational without interruption.

Still not sure? Download our white papers to compare the options:

• Usage Differences of CODE and Collabora Online
• Differences between Collabora Online and Collabora Office

Or book a call with our sales team for a personalised walk-through of our complete office suite - just reply to this email.

Best regards,

The team at Collabora Online