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Photos: Native Aqua OpenOffice on Mac By Brendon Chase, ZDNet Australia June 08, 2007 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Photos-Native-Aqua-OpenOffice-on-Mac/0,139023769,339278364,00.htm
The OpenOffice team have announced this week the first alpha release of the Aqua version of OpenOffice productivity suite for Mac OS X. The OpenOffice.org Mac Porting Project aims to port the office productivity suite to run on Mac OS X natively without X11. This version of OpenOffice Aqua is squarely aimed at developers and early adopters. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on either PPC or Intel chipsets to run. While an Alpha release with known bugs we found it quite stable but wouldn't risk using it for production purposes. Check out our photo gallery below that shows the installation and a quick mess around with all the apps and features in the alpha release. 
The warning before installing this alpha release. Credit: Brendon Chase/ZDNet Australia 
The Aqua version of OpenOffice is around 130MB Credit: Brendon Chase/ZDNet Australia 
The installation process is pretty straight forward for an alpha release with no hic-ups. Credit: Brendon Chase/ZDNet Australia 
The wizard installation is straight forward and users of OpenOffice will see it is exactly the same as Windows and Linux versions of the office suite Credit: Brendon Chase/ZDNet Australia 
The first thing users will see when installing the Aqua version of OpenOffice is that the Dock doesn't load X11. Credit: Brendon Chase/ZDNet Australia 
Once installed the Aqua native version of OpenOffice loaded faster than other versions of OpenOffice tested on the same Mac. Credit: Brendon Chase/ZDNet Australia 
The Writer interface. The simple word processor is easy on the eye worked well for an Alpha Release. Credit: Brendon Chase/ZDNet Australia 
Calc is the OpenOffice equivalent of Microsoft's Excel. The basic functionality of spreadsheets worked fine during our tests but you might be wary of complex spreadsheets written in Excel from the finance department. Credit: Brendon Chase/ZDNet Australia 
The OpenOffice wizard for Presentation has similar functionality to PowerPoint and Apple's Keynote. Credit: Brendon Chase/ZDNet Australia 
As the name suggests, OpenOffice's Database is a database. The functionality is basic but will do most of your office database needs, though you don't want this to be a proper server-side SQL database replacement. Credit: Brendon Chase/ZDNet Australia 
Draw is the basic illustration tool included in OpenOffice. We found we could create some basic publishing documents just fine in the Alpha. Printing was another story -- but this is just a preview release. Credit: Brendon Chase/ZDNet Australia
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