From: Rob Rye <rye(a)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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