CIB welcomes the merger of Collabora Productivity and allotropia with enthusiasm, as this strategic consolidation significantly enhances the Open Source Office landscape that we have long supported and invested in. This move unites two of the most capable engineering teams in the LibreOffice ecosystem—combining scale, innovation, and deep commitment to digital sovereignty.
As a major player in the ecosystem, this merger is a great opportunity to further accelerate innovation in the area of office productivity solutions. We will offer our customers - particularly in public administration and vertical specialist processes - even more added value.
"With the growing importance of digital sovereignty, it is strategically crucial to join forces, build stronger product teams, and reach the critical mass needed to create competitive European software solutions. That’s why CIB is excited to deepen its partnership with Collabora and jointly offer more products and services around CIB’s intelligent process management solutions, as well as our AI tools and language models, Collabora Online, and the Collabora WASM components." – says Ulrich Brandner, owner of the CIB Group.
The integration of allotropia into Collabora Productivity consolidates deep technical know-how—particularly around WebAssembly, offline browser capabilities, and complex vertical business workflows. These are all areas where CIB and allotropia have actively collaborated in the past. This merger ensures that those capabilities will continue to grow within a larger and more resourceful organizational structure, opening new doors for our joint work in modernizing public administration tools and transitioning legacy Windows-based applications to efficient, multi-platform, web-first solutions.
The expanded team will drive issues with a greater focus on those that are particularly relevant to our customers:
- Improved support for enterprise deployments
- Faster development cycles and richer functionality in shared offerings like CIB Office and Nextcloud Office
- Strengthened LibreOffice codebase contributions, which benefit the entire community
- A broader base of engineers and partners to scale support and integration services
Collabora Online — already a market-leading browser-based office solution— will be supercharged by allotropia’s experience in embedding office technology into diverse applications. This aligns well with CIB's mission to offer powerful, secure, and interoperable document editing tools deeply integrated into customer environments.
CIB is also encouraged by Collabora’s commitment to community transparency and ongoing collaboration, particularly through its upcoming COOL Days conference in Budapest. We look forward to taking part in the conversations that will shape the next generation of FLOSS office products, and to seeing the concrete outcomes of this merger translated into better tools and services for our customers.
We extend congratulations to both Collabora and allotropia. Their shared values of technical excellence, openness, and customer focus mirror our own, and we are excited to deepen our collaboration within this revitalized ecosystem.
Together, we continue to build the future of Open Source Office solutions with broader reach, deeper functionality, and unwavering commitment to digital sovereignty.
