OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC2 has been released on September 21st, 2008 and has received enthusiastic feedback. Try it out!

OpenOffice.org is out version 3.0 RC1 (although beta1 and beta2 version is out several months ago).

Some things are new:

1. [specialy for mac] Aqua. OOo 3.0 for mac doesn’t need X11  anymore. This means,the display and  applications look like as the Mac in general. In a similar appearance with NeoOffice. Means  I dont need NeoOffice again.
2. Can open and edit files MSOffice 2007/2008 (docx, xlsx, pptx).
3. Can open the PDF files (with additional extensions Import PDF). PDF file is opened as a vector image (with Draw); text can be edited but not flowing. Perhaps, in the final version later, PDF documents can be opened as plain text (the Writer). Fair useful for the hrs PDF form.
4. Can make PDF combo; this document is ODF (can be text / Writer, a spreadsheet / calc, etc.) that are stored as PDF, but when opened with 3.0 But we need, can come out again the original documents. If opened with the usual PDF reader (such as Preview or Acrobat) PDF document combo seems normal PDF.

When I use MacBook with 512MB of RAM, 3.0 feels But we need a little more tracks than NeoOffice 2.2.2 or 2.4 But we need (although it Spek But we need 3.0 requested 1 GB of RAM). But if we use 2GB of RAM, the speed I feel not difference.

There are still some bugs, and several are still often crash. But in general, can be reliable enough already.

UPDATE : OpenOffice.org 3.0 is available now on 13 October 2008