Breaking News: OpenOffice.org to release Mac version which is already usable as a development snapshot!

Finding this nice link on GullFOSS (Sun's OpenOffice dedicated Blog), I downloaded the development snapshot of OpenOffice 2.4 for Mac (in Aqua). Having tested numerous releases, and having worked with every single possible productivity suite for Mac out there, it now seems there is something sturdy and reliable. Previously, documents would not open properly, it did not use Mac's finder save panel, it was slow, and there were visual glitches from time to time.

OOo-Dev2.4 Developer Snapshot (build OOH680_m5) which installs as OOo-Dev 2.4 has been uploaded to the mirror network. The rename of the product name to OOo-Dev allows the installation of the OpenOffice.org snapshot parallel to an OpenOffice.org 2.x 'final' (released) version. For this version some language packs have been uploaded and they should install into the OOo-Dev installation. More language packs will be provided with the release candidate. CVS branch OOH680 is used as release branch for OpenOffice.org 2.4.Note: The MacOSX Aqua build provided with this developer snapshot installs as OpenOffice.org (not as OOo-Dev).

GullFOSS This is just after IBM announced that it would be introducing Lotus Symphony for Mac shortly (the original article said a week after Macworld). So far nothing, but I would suggest to Big Blue, that they get on that release before OpenOffice steals the install base.