Give thanks and praise: native OpenOffice arriving next month

The month has passed and still no OpenOffice for Mac... Does anyone have newer information on that?

I have long thought the absense of a REAL OpenOffice port was a MAJOR problem with the entire mac platform. (I mean really, how is that nice to the poor college students?)

Pretty sure heaven just opened up and dropped one of its GLORIOUS gems down upon us undeserving humans.

#17 I've tried NeOffice couple of times and zapped it coz it was way too slow.
If OO is faster than NeoOffice then it was worth the port. I suppose that they can pretty things up a bit after the initial port esp. if we scream at them enough...

This is getting sillier and sillier. Macworld UK has it wrong, and now everybody on the net is "reporting" this blunder without checking the facts. The Mac porting team has managed to compile OpenOffice.org without X11 dependencies and did some Event Loop and Menu hacks. They can start the program from the command line and do some things, but even text input is currently not working. They can manage to get some screenshots & are obviously very proud. A stable, workable Carbon-based port is months away (my guess is rather years, or they would have to get more support from new developers). I'm surprised that nobody from the porting team is trying to stop these wrong news.

I have to agree with the people that are saying that this port is butt-ugly.

I had to verify several times that I wasn't looking at the Windows version of OO. In fact, I'm not sure how you can make an Aqua app that awful-looking.

No, this is not another shallow, elitist Mac fanboi rant. I would guess that the comments to that effect are coming from Windows trolls who just don't understand that consistent look and feel equals PRODUCTIVITY.

My point is this: Hats off to the effort! Now let's see if this can actually be turned into a more Mac-like application suite. THEN, I'll be ready to forsake NeoOffice.

After all, if NeoOffice can do it using Java, then OOo should be able to do it in C++ just as easily.

Great news. Look forward to transferring all my documents to ODF.

For one thing, where are some of these commenters seeing screenshots of the as-yet unannounced version? All I could find are screenshots of the *existing* version.

Speaking of the existing version: it's a port from the Solaris version, which is why it uses X11, and why it's so ugly. But, for functionality and MS Office compatibility, it's a nice start.

I've been using the new NeoOffice beta, and like it quite a bit. Some users are still whining about how it looks, though. I could care less. Having a viable, FREE, Office alternative is a major plus. If they eventually pretty it up, then great. Until then, I'll continue to enjoy it and recommend it to others.

Thanks and praise? Guess we'll have to wait and see. Viewing the screenshot, it looks as if the new aquafication of NeoOffice is much nicer.

I see it's time to volunteer my "troll"... er, I mean, comment:

This announcement explains why the Neo Office team charged money for early access to their beta, before releasing it on the 29th: they knew the OO people were going to make this announcement, and wanted to try and make a quick buck before OO undercut all their development efforts.

Unless it's amazingly fast, NeoOffice has them beat in so many ways...