Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage)
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@Dashrender True, the online-only offering for O365 Business is $5. The goal of this thought experiment is seeing how you can achieve office applications + remote file storage / sharing using open sourced solutions.
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@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world:
On that note, it looks like I could get one of the cheapest instance of Vultr and one 10 GB block of storage and exceed my current storage needs from OneDrive.
That's not how you do it. You want their STORAGE instances, not something that comes with storage blocks.
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@scottalanmiller said in Exploring the Open Source world:
@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world:
On that note, it looks like I could get one of the cheapest instance of Vultr and one 10 GB block of storage and exceed my current storage needs from OneDrive.
That's not how you do it. You want their STORAGE instances, not something that comes with storage blocks.
https://www.vultr.com/pricing/ Does their "Vultr Cloud Compute" their "storage instances"? Methinks the answer is "no."
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I see this becoming a multi-thread conversation, rather than cramming my exploration into one thread.
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@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
@scottalanmiller said in Exploring the Open Source world:
@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world:
On that note, it looks like I could get one of the cheapest instance of Vultr and one 10 GB block of storage and exceed my current storage needs from OneDrive.
That's not how you do it. You want their STORAGE instances, not something that comes with storage blocks.
https://www.vultr.com/pricing/ Does their "Vultr Cloud Compute" their "storage instances"? Methinks the answer is "no."
You only see the products that they offer if you are signed in.
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@scottalanmiller Ah, now I see.
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@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
@Dashrender True, the online-only offering for O365 Business is $5. The goal of this thought experiment is seeing how you can achieve office applications + remote file storage / sharing using open sourced solutions.
is that because that's what the thought experiment is? - solely about OSS solutions?
Doesn't NextCloud have Libre Office built into it now?
Does anyone know if Libre Office has a connection API (probably WebDAV) to NextCloud to work like OD/ODfB?
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@Dashrender said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
@Dashrender True, the online-only offering for O365 Business is $5. The goal of this thought experiment is seeing how you can achieve office applications + remote file storage / sharing using open sourced solutions.
is that because that's what the thought experiment is? - solely about OSS solutions?
Doesn't NextCloud have Libre Office built into it now?
Does anyone know if Libre Office has a connection API (probably WebDAV) to NextCloud to work like OD/ODfB?
It has the Collabora Suite as an addon, but it's not included in the main app.
A quick check, shows that LO does offer some remote file capabilities... (File -> Open Remote File)
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OK so you know you can setup a WebDAV session to NC if you wanted.
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@Dashrender said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
Does anyone know if Libre Office has a connection API (probably WebDAV) to NextCloud to work like OD/ODfB?
It's called Remote Servers and I use it all of the time. Uses the WebDav interface.
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@Dashrender said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
@Dashrender
is that because that's what the thought experiment is? - solely about OSS solutions?Correct.
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For all the trouble I have gone through to get RDSH working, Next Cloud still makes me wonder...
And does Anyone use Libre Office as a full replacement for Office 2016?
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@bigbear said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
For all the trouble I have gone through to get RDSH working, Next Cloud still makes me wonder...
And does Anyone use Libre Office as a full replacement for Office 2016?
We do. Yes. Unless you are collaborating on document writing with other companies, little use for MS Office.
