Collabora

Collabora Ltd
Company typePrivate limited company
IndustrySoftware Consulting, Software Products, Open Source
FoundedJuly 2005 (2005-07)
FounderRobert McQueen and Robert Taylor[1]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Philippe Kalaf, Michael Meeks, Guy Lunardi
ProductsTelepathy Communications framework, GStreamer, Webkit, Blink, DLNA, LibreOffice, Collabora Online, Wayland, PulseAudio
ServicesOpen source consultancy and engineering
Number of employees
>100
Websitecollabora.com

Collabora Ltd 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.[2]

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 the main developer of LibreOffice.[3][4][5][6]

In 2015, the Crown Commercial Service announced the introduction of Collabora GovOffice and Collabora CloudSuite in all non-profit making government organisations.[7]

  1. ^ "Collabora Limited". Endole. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. ^ "About - Open Source Consulting | Collabora". Collabora | Open Source Consulting.
  3. ^ "Collabora expands with new Multimedia Division". Archived from the original on 2011-08-29.
  4. ^ "Collabora Productivity targets a marketplace of one billion desktops". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21.
  5. ^ Mark Wilson (2015-03-25). "LibreOffice moves to the cloud to take on Office Online and Google Docs". BetaNews.com.
  6. ^ Michael Meeks (2023-09-23). "Collabora & LibreOffice, Working together to make Open Source rock".
  7. ^ "Collabora deal will provide savings on Open Source office software". gov.uk.