Open Office 1.1.1 Released

[ZeppelinArmada]

Open Office 1.1.1 has finally been released for OS X (10.2.X or greater). It is only available as a source tarball, but the site promises binaries with a GUI installer soon (this week). You can find it here (http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/).

[Zaty]

Open Office 1.1.1 has finally been released for OS X (10.2.X or greater). It is only available as a source tarball, but the site promises binaries with a GUI installer soon (this week). You can find it here (http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/).

That's really good news! Once OO runs natively in Mac OS X, it will be a serious competitor for MS Office. In certain respects, it's already surpassed MS Office.

[walkingmac]

ok.... so is it going to be an actual 'NATIVE' app? or just an easy way to run it in X11? (sorry if that seems like a dumb question, just can't seem to tell from the site)

[ZeppelinArmada]

It is still run under X11. Work will not begin on a Cocoa based OpenOffice until version 2.0, which may be as early as late 2005. Though X11 based, it is free and it is a very capable replacement for Office. To all those who haven't given it a try I would recommend doing so before buying Office. It is also available for Windows, Linux and Solaris.

[Savage Henry]

I'll download when I get home.

I am sooo close to buying M$Office for Mac, so any reason not to is fine by me.

[wrldwzrd89]

I'll download when I get home.

I am sooo close to buying M$Office for Mac, so any reason not to is fine by me.
I should probably try out OpenOffice or a derivative thereof (like the Java version, which I can't remember the name of) on my iMac. I don't want to use M$ Office either, but I could use something more capable than AppleWorks.

[FattyMembrane]

an osx native version of abiword (http://www.abisource.com) was released about a week ago. it's still pretty buggy, but it's well worth a look.

p.s. the native version is a 2.1.1 dev version available here (http://www.abisource.com/download/development.phtml)