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Collabora

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Area served
  
Worldwide

Headquarters
  
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Number of employees
  
84

Website
  
www.collabora.com

Founded
  
July 2005

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Industry
  
Software Consulting, Software Products, Open Source

Key people
  
Philippe Kalaf, Michael Meeks, Guy Lunardi

Products
  
Telepathy Communications framework, GStreamer, Webkit, Blink, DLNA, LibreOffice, Wayland, PulseAudio

Services
  
Open source consultancy and engineering

Founders
  
Philippe Kalaf, Robert McQueen, Robert Taylor

Type
  
Private company limited by shares

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Collabora is a global private company founded by Robert McQueen, Philippe Kalaf and Robert Taylor based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with offices in Cambridge and Montreal. It provides open-source consultancy, training and products to companies.

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Collabora's initial focus was instant messaging (IM), Voice over IP (VoIP) and videoconferencing technologies, but the company has since expanded its offering to include general multimedia, mobile web technologies, collaboration infrastructure, automotive infotainment platforms, graphics optimization, multimedia interoperability & productivity software. It is one of the main developers of LibreOffice.

In 2015, the Crown Commercial Service announced the introduction of Collabora GovOffice and Collabora CloudSuite in all non-profit making government organisations.

Collabora open source consultancy


Projects sponsored or founded by Collabora

  • LibreOffice: Collabora Productivity sells support and development services on the office suite. The former SUSE development team joined Collabora in September 2013.
    • The company announced a collaboration with IceWarp to work on LibreOffice Online. On 15 December 2015, the company announced partnership with ownCloud and release of CODE, a distribution of LibreOffice Online and ownCloud Server. On 2 June 2016, the company released Collabora Online 1.0 “Engine”, which the company calls the first production grade version of Collabora Online. Branded versions of LibreOffice include LibreOffice-From-Collabora, Collabora Office and Collabora GovOffice.
  • GStreamer, a multimedia framework.
  • D-Bus, a free and open-source inter-process communication (IPC) system.
  • PulseAudio, a sound system for POSIX OSes used as the default audio server on most GNU/Linux open source distributions.
  • Wayland and Weston (display server protocols)
  • Linux kernel Bluetooth Subsystem: Collabora employs Gustavo Padovan, the Linux kernel Bluetooth subsystem maintainer who also contributes to BlueZ
  • Farstream and Telepathy, a VoIP and collaboration framework created by Collabora founders. Includes the Empathy chat client.
  • Pitivi and GES, a video editor for the free software desktop. Between 2008 and 2009, Collabora's Multimedia division worked on improving Pitivi. The GES library was initially created by Collabora in 2011 to provide video editing capabilities to the MeeGo platform.
  • Maynard, a Weston shell

    • References

    Collabora Wikipedia
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