For the Mac users out there the OpenOffice Mac Team has announced an Alpha release of OpenOffice for the Mac platform finally. They do make it clear that this is an alpha release and will likely crash and corrupt files, so not ready for prime-time yet, but it’s a step in the right direction.
For the folks that have been using OpenOffice on Mac, chances are you have been using NeoOffice, which has been a singular/dual developer effort for a long time and until recently hasn’t had a stable release of the OpenOffice 2 code base.
It looks like Mac is starting (thankfully) to get alternatives to Microsoft Office for serious office development
