Sun joins OpenOffice Mac Porting Project

Kip, NeoOffice is its own project based on OOo. By contributing to the OOo project, Sun is indirectly helping the NeoOffice team. Who knows? Maybe Sun will use some of the improvements that they have made. I think that it would be a good idea and would save them a lot of time from having to basically start from scratch.

Personally, Ive used and like Neo Office.
If there is going to be a real serious contender to MS Office, then it has to be a collaborative work. Why doesnt everyone get onboard with NeoOffice. It is already a pretty decent app. With a bit of spit and polish, it would become a really viable alternative - probably with alot less work (less aquafying to do!)

Port jeesh. How much is there to do? Producing an interface takes alot of workers, please.

i would love to have native OO.org on osX!
OO.org X11 is slow, and not too pretty, but it works.
Neooffice looks better, but is even slower.

Koffice is a nice alternative, but unfortunately the pre alpha releases of KDE for osx are very very unstable, at the moment.
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/16/native-kde-applications-coming-for-os-x/

it will use also the experiences of Neoffice. so nothing is a waste.

and Sun has many many opensource projects, you cannot expect sun to finance and put workers to everything at once.

do not forget sun finance the OpenOffice.org for years (and it is not alone)

no, Apple can't use openoffice and insert it in iwork or iwork should be open source too. Of course sun could write a specific licence for apple, but Sun never stated they sell specific licences to develop new closed products with it

NeoOffice 2.1 is pretty snazzy on my G4 once it loads. A true port would be welcome though coz I like the whole Open Office idea. I wish someone would take Koffice and make that Mac native. Kvio just rocks.

The NeoOffice developers have done a pretty good job, but honestly they just don't have the time nor funds to make NeoOffice as good as we would want it. Maybe they can contribute their code back to the OOo project and Sun can improve upon it with the help of the community. I personally would not mind seeing StarOffice become an OS X native suite. I think a new contender is needed since I don't believe Corel ever had plans to port Word Perfect Office, and there aren't too many real office suites on the Mac. The only ones that I am aware of (other than Microsoft Office of course) are Think Free Office, the Mariner Pak (Mariner Write and Calc), and Papyrus Office (it only does database and word processing). iWork is great and I enjoy using it, but it's not quite up to par with the other full suites.

I agree the new Neooffice 2.1 is very very nice. just a look at openoffice makes you cant to cry after you have looked at the new version.


its awesome. very pretty

I'm a bit concerned about the NeoOffice development as well... Version 2+ is Aqua native (i.e., it doesn't need Xcode to run anymore). It is VERY zippy on my G5s!

Great news... the sooner i can rid myself of neooffice, the better.