Alan,
The easy choice is NeoOffice/J as it is the most "Mac like" at the
moment. It is a bit behind the latest
and greatest, but not too far.
For Mac OS X 10.4, the Open Office and X-11 combination requires that
you install X-11 from the install
disk for OS X as it is not installed by default. (It is installed by
default in OS X 10.5.) The X-11 environment
looks more Windows or Linux like rather than Mac like. But it works
well.
For Mac OS X 10.5 there are still a few minor glitches with Open
Office 2.x which will be mostly cleared
up when Apple gets an updated X-11 for 10.5.
The Open Office native builds are not yet production ready and are
subject to change and would not be a good
choice for this type of installation at this time.
On Nov 7, 2007, at 11:44, Alan Lord wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am familiar with OOo to the point I can compile it from scratch on
Linux and I use it day-to-day for my job...
However - I have been asked to quote for installing it on a few MACs
in a design office.
MACs are an alien world to me, apart from the command line of the
latest releases as it is just like Linux :-)
Anyway - I have just started reading about NeoOffice, OpenOffice.org
for MAC plus X11 (eeek!) and the alpha of OOo for MACs on Aqua.
Can someone offer any guidance/advice as to which installation route
will provide what type of experience and perhaps - more to the point
- is likely to be the least intrusive to production MAC platforms?
The user really only wants to be able to open, edit and send back
the odd Microsoft doc to their clients...
TIA
Alan
Ross Bernheim
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