Feng Office

Feng Office is a software development company best known for the Feng Office Collaboration Platform, an online work-management and office-collaboration system offered through hosted, installed, and open-source editions. The company originated in Uruguay and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States. The product began as the OpenGoo Open Source Project, a university engineering project at the University of the Republic in Uruguay. Software engineers Marcos Saiz and Ignacio de Soto developed the first prototype as their thesis, with Eduardo Fernández and Tomas Laurenzo acting as tutors. Conrado Viña championed the project, and the resulting thesis received the institution's highest score. Viña, Saiz, and de Soto subsequently helped establish the OpenGoo community and remained involved as core contributors. In 2008, Conrado Viña, Marcos Saiz, Sergio Riestra, and Ignacio de Soto formed Feng Office to develop and support the OpenGoo project. The organization later changed the project's name from OpenGoo to Feng Office in December 2009. The rebranding marked the transition from a university-originated open-source project to a company and product identity centered on collaboration software and related services. Feng Office's offering has included several deployment and commercial tiers. Feng Sky is the company's hosted, software-as-a-service version, while Feng Onsite is designed for installation on servers operated by customers or other external organizations. The Community Edition is an open-source version intended for self-installation and self-support. Commercial editions have included Essential, Professional, and Enterprise, with increasing capabilities and service or management features. The Professional edition adds a Manager role, while the Enterprise edition is positioned as the most complete tier and includes additional plug-ins and reporting capabilities. The platform belongs to the broader categories of online office suites, software as a service, cloud computing, open-source software, and collaborative work-management tools. Public reference material does not establish the company's current ownership, executive leadership, financial performance, public listing, or present operating status, so those details are left unspecified.

Feng Office traces its origins to OpenGoo, an open-source software project developed at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of the Republic in Uruguay. The project began as a degree project rather than as a conventional commercial venture. Software engineers Marcos Saiz and Ignacio de Soto created the first prototype as their thesis, while professors Eduardo Fernández and Tomas Laurenzo served as academic tutors. Conrado Viña promoted and championed the project. The thesis was approved with the institution's highest score, providing the project with an academic foundation and a working prototype. Following the thesis work, Conrado Viña, Ignacio de Soto, and Marcos Saiz helped create the OpenGoo community. They remained active in the project as core developers, linking the university-originated work to an open-source development community. The project's orientation was toward collaborative online office and work-management functions, placing it within the emerging software-as-a-service and cloud-computing sectors while retaining a self-hosted open-source option. In 2008, Viña, Saiz, Sergio Riestra, and de Soto established Feng Office as a company responsible for the development and support of OpenGoo. This created a formal organization around the project and allowed the software to be maintained through a combination of community and company-backed activity. The company was originally from Uruguay and later became headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States. In December 2009, Feng Office rebranded OpenGoo as Feng Office. The change consolidated the software and company identities under the Feng Office name. After the rebranding, the product family was described through multiple deployment models and editions. Feng Sky represented a hosted, on-demand SaaS service; Feng Onsite supported installation on external or customer-controlled servers; and the Community Edition provided an open-source, self-installed and self-supported option. The company also developed tiered editions for organizations seeking different levels of functionality and support. Feng Office Essential served as an entry-level edition. Feng Office Professional added a Manager role, while Feng Office Enterprise was presented as the most comprehensive version, with broader plug-in and reporting capabilities. This structure allowed the platform to address both users seeking open-source self-management and organizations seeking a more managed or feature-rich collaboration environment. Available reference material does not provide a reliable account of later ownership changes, acquisitions, executive succession, financial results, product discontinuation, or the company's current commercial activity. Accordingly, the documented history ends with the establishment of the company, the OpenGoo-to-Feng Office rebrand, and the description of its principal deployment models and editions.

1. 2009OpenGoo is rebranded as Feng Office

   In December 2009, the project adopted the Feng Office name, aligning the product identity with the company established around its development and support.

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2. 2008Feng Office company is established

   Conrado Viña, Marcos Saiz, Sergio Riestra, and Ignacio de Soto formed Feng Office to develop and support the OpenGoo open-source project.

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3. OpenGoo project begins at the University of the Republic

   The software began as an engineering degree project at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of the Republic in Uruguay. Marcos Saiz and Ignacio de Soto developed the first prototype, with Eduardo Fernández and Tomas Laurenzo as tutors and Conrado Viña as a prominent champion.

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An open-source-rooted collaboration and online office platform offered through hosted SaaS, customer-managed installation, and tiered commercial editions.

• Feng Office Collaboration PlatformCollaboration and online office software

  The core Feng Office platform is a collaborative online office and work-management system. It is associated with the company's hosted, installed, open-source, and commercial product variants, giving organizations different ways to deploy and support the software.

• Feng SkySoftware as a service

  Feng Sky is the on-demand hosted version of Feng Office. It represents the SaaS deployment model, in which the collaboration platform is provided as an online service rather than requiring the customer to install and operate the application on its own infrastructure.

• Feng OnsiteOn-premises collaboration software

  Feng Onsite is the installation-oriented version of the Feng Office platform. It is intended to run on external or customer-controlled servers, providing an alternative to the hosted Feng Sky model for organizations that require greater control over deployment.

• Feng Office Community EditionOpen-source collaboration software

  The Community Edition is the open-source, self-installed version of Feng Office. It is designed for users who want to deploy and support the platform themselves rather than purchase a hosted or commercially supported package.

• Feng Office EssentialEntry-level business software edition

  Essential is the entry-level edition in the Feng Office commercial product structure. Reference material identifies it as a lower-tier option, but does not provide a complete feature list or current availability information.

• Feng Office ProfessionalProfessional collaboration software edition

  Professional is a mid-tier Feng Office edition. Its documented distinguishing feature is the addition of a Manager role, placing it above the entry-level Essential edition in the product hierarchy.

• Feng Office EnterpriseEnterprise collaboration software edition

  Enterprise is positioned as the most complete Feng Office edition. It is described as adding multiple benefits, including plug-ins and reports, for organizations requiring a broader feature set than the lower-tier editions.

• 2009Rebranding from OpenGoo to Feng OfficeStrategy

  The OpenGoo project had developed from a university engineering project into an open-source community and company-backed software initiative.

  What changed. Feng Office changed the project's name to Feng Office in December 2009.

  Aftermath. The rebrand established Feng Office as the primary product and company identity and was followed by a product family spanning hosted, installed, open-source, and tiered commercial editions.

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