From: Rob Rye rye@usc.edu

Neooffice is extremely similar to OpenOffice, being explicitly based on OpenOffice (its developers are former OpenOffice.org developers who went independent to write a Mac-GUI based version of the software on their "spare time"). In general, Neooffice has almost identical functionally to OpenOffice.org though I cannot speak to whether or not it is able to export wikitext as I have never attempted to use Neooffice in this way.

I've gone Microsoft-free, and I rather like iWork as an Office work- alike.

Keynote does a wonderful job reading PowerPoint files, and seems to me much more intuitive. You can do more powerful stuff quicker -- and the result doesn't look like built-in PowerPoint template. :-)

Numbers is weaker than Excel, but okay if you can do without stuff like pivot tables. And this is Version 1.0. So I expect greater Excel compatibility is on the horizon.

Pages goes beyond Word processing with page layout. Think of it as a lean, mean version of Word combined with a lean, mean version of InDesign. I'm not always happy with its .doc imports, thought, finding SimpleText does a more faithful rendition, especially with tables.

Anyway, I'm an iWork fan. It costs more than Neooffice, but you're worth it. :-)

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