The free, open-source competitor to Microsoft Office now caters to Mac users. Sun Microsystems released the first beta of OpenOffice, the open-source sibling of its StarOffice package, for Mac OS ...

Developers from Sun have been assigned to work on a Mac OS X version of the open-source OpenOffice.org productivity suite.

Haven't seen this mentioned yet, but there is now a beta release of OpenOffice for Mac OS X available. It only runs with an X11 installation - it is not Aqua-ready (and you can sure tell it; next ...

OpenOffice uses different graphics, called x11, which isn't supported on OS X without special software. "The current release of OpenOffice for Mac OS X requires x11," Siress said.