DKELLEY  oh yes - and Neooffice isn't native for intel macs yet. That's the whole point of this release - it runs natively on intel macs, so it's FAST FAST FAST. When neooffice does the following:

- makes a native intel version

- releases version 2 of open office

That's when I'll move to the neo release. Otherwise I'm sticking with this one from now on.  
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DKELLEY  Thanks, but I'd take java over X11 any day!!?? X11 on a mac is a user interface running WITHIN a user interface, and while it works great, it's annoying to have to quit X11 after you quit an X11 application, and have X11 ask for confirmation before quitting.

Java is a programming language and runtime system. It's completely different. It doesn't require you to run everything within a second user interface (thankfully), it is VERY FAST (has been for the last couple of years at least now), and you'd be surprised how many major apps for OSX are written in Java.

Ever used the #1 FTP application called Cyberduck? Just an example...

Anyway, back to the comments about this - THANKS to the person(s) who compiled this for intel. Obviously it's not an official release yet on the open office site, which is a pity, but it's what the users of new macs need - a native, high speed, major, complete office suite that is completely MS compatible and completely (legally) free! This should be installed on new macs by default... but then I guess Apple would never sell iWork '06. (Which I have by the way and is nice, so kudos to apple for improving Pages some).

Cheers,

DBK  
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