Open office vs Neo Office - which is better?

I have neo office currently. I have been told open office is more reliable and compatible then neo office is. I tried it once before and did not like installing that X11 program thing. (Still not sure why it's needed or what it does as neo office does not make you install that).

Is there a difference in compatibility or reliability between the two?

 

Here are couple of link that I found helpful,

1. Comparison table
2. Slightly old thread on Macrumors

 

Awesome thanks smiley. I'll stick with neo office for now.

 

you're welcome. wikipedia also has an excellent comparioson table all all officesuites out there. MacScience has some exhaustive lists too.

 

I agree, stick with NeoOffice. X11 is pretty resource-consuming, and I don't see an "incentive" to use it when there's NeoOffice which isn't as resource consuming.

Just a note of interest, there is OpenOffice for Mac being developed right now, which won't be utilizing X11, but its not scheduled for release for a long time.

 

yea use neooffice, i dont even know why theyd waste their time with OOo for mac, but o well.

 

Something else that puzzles me; they're working on OpenOffice for Mac that will be native, but it will have an Aqua look...but Leopard is arriving in a month and they're replacing Aqua with a new look anyways...

 

Leopard is the sixth version of OS X and the sixth version of the Aqua look. It doesn't kill Aqua nor does it replace it with something else.

The OpenOffice.org team is going to use OS X's API (programming interfaces) which shouldn't change much with Leopard. If the default look of the widgets change, it will inherit it automatically; programmers don't usually deal with this themselves. Apple's own applications are the exception to this rule.