OpenOffice

from the blog: ma.gnolia goes open source, and earlier; Slides from YAPC 2008 talks

Version: 2.3 || Release Date: 2007-06-06 || License: Freeware

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

Tags: office , suite

9 Opinions:

by pilot_pirx, 2008-03-20

Version 3.0 will be out soon. And the thing is: Is does not need X11 any more!

by ajbis, 2008-02-08

Here's a listing without the version number in the title...
http://osx.iusethis.com/app/openoffice

by smsm1986, 2007-11-18

There are regular aqua builds being produced now.

by macskeeball, 2007-07-10 (score: 3)

I suggest giving NeoOffice a try. It's based on OpenOffice, but is somewhat more Mac-like.

by groxx, 2006-12-31

Tried this, used it for a while, and was horribly irritated when it was painfully slow to do anything. It even lags a few keystrokes behind my typing.

I've been using NeoOffice. OOo was uninstalled shortly after the switch.

by dwevskyx, 2006-11-25

Now I'm with bikefridaywalter. While OOO is pretty good, I'll take a native application over an X11 one any day. NeoOffice is now my spreadsheet of choice, again, until the Apple alternative arrives.

by bikefridaywalter, 2006-11-25 (score: 2)

i used this for a long time.. until the latest neooffice came out. sure is nice to avoid x11 and run a native app.

by dwevskyx, 2006-11-02

A great free alternative to MS Office. I have Keynote, and Pages, and prefer those for the tasks they were made for, but I use OOO for spreadsheet work, and CSV editing. However, once (if?) Apple release a spreadsheet app (Numbers?) I'll probably go to that and get rid of OOO.

by stephenfleming, 2006-07-12

Experimenting with this... very impressed. It opened a complicated file from Windows PowerPoint that consistently crashed the current version of Mac PowerPoint!