Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Aug 2006 17:32 UTC, submitted by benmhall
NeoOffice has released a 2.0 beta version of its OpenOffice-based office suite for Mac OS X, now with aqua look and feel. You can join the beta program for 10 or 25 USD, depending on purchase date.
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2005-11-17
The MacOS X builds that were in the earlier StarOffice releases (5.2 and earlier if I remember correctly) were for MacOS 9. MacOS GUI toolkit changed in a HUGE way between MacOS 9 and MacOS X, also there was very little usage of StarOffice on MacOS back then so it just wasn't a viable port. Things have changed a lot now MacOS X is much more popular.
I hope that oneday NeoOffice and OpenOffice.org will integrate but I'm not sure that NeoOffice is mature enough yet - though it is getting better very quickly and every release is better integrated into MacOS X than the previous one.
Personally I wish Apple had worked with OpenOffice.org and helped out with the native port rather than going off and developing a new suite of applications. Sure Pages is a little different to Writer but OpenOffice.org has a good presentation package and (at least of me) more than adequte spreadsheet.