Existing users, 
NeoOffice
Office suite based on OpenOffice.org.
Version: 3.0.1
Last resort for PPC crowd
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: TxTom21 Friday, June 26 2009 @ 07:09 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: YES
I applaud the development of this OO.o variant. It's the only one still under active development for the PPC users (and thanks to the high cost and high quality of Apple gear, there's still plenty of them) so we/they are not left in the lurch as other developers leave a good chunk of the Mac crowd behind.
OOo PowerPC is *not* dead - versiontracker2007
OpenOffice for PowerPC is not dead. If it was, why would there be 3.1 development builds here:http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/Dev_OOO310_m17/
OpenOffice 3.0 did not get enough feedback/UAT/sign-off to release. And 3.1 will be in the same boat if people just download it and don't actually provide feedback -- which is the entire point of releasing the beta versions in the first place.
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=96028
You want OOo PPC? Get the betas, feed it back, tell your friends to do the same. Do something about it, instead of just complaining. I work in the software testing business, and we cannot get release authorization without appropriate/sufficient User Acceptance Testing.
However, it's probably indicative of the take-up of Intel Macs that they can't scrounge enough feedback on the PPC version. I've found the same -- of the fleet that I look after, PowerPC machines are now in the single-digits. So where am I to get people to sign off on releases for PPC users? So, although you may complain that they are abandoning PowerPC users, it is quite likely it's the users who are abandoning PowerPC, which isn't OOo's fault. They're just sitting there going "where is everybody?"
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