Collabora is a global private company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with offices in Cambridge and Montreal. It provides open-source consultancy, training and products to companies.
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. Collabora's department Collabora Productivity 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.
LibreOffice: Collabora Productivity sells support and development services on the office suite. The former LibreOffice development team of SUSE 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 (Collabora Online Development Edition), 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.
On 2 November 2016, the company released CODE 2.0 which includes "the latest and most requested feature from customers: collaborative editing."
Branded versions of LibreOffice include LibreOffice-From-Collabora, Collabora Office, Collabora Online and Collabora GovOffice.
Collabora Online is shipped with NextCloud Server.
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 Linux open source distributions.
Wayland and Weston (display server protocols)
Linux kernel Collabora employs multiple kernel subsystem maintainers (e.