OpenOffice.org on the Mac

Jason of Real Linux Geek mentions that OpenOffice.org is available for many more platforms than Microsoft Office. He mentions that it runs on "Windows 9x/Me/XP/NT/2000, Linux, Macintosh, FreeBSD and Solaris." As someone in charge of buying office suites for a largely Mac institution, I'm sad to say that the status of OOo on the Mac is tenuous at best. There is a version that runs under X11, which requires an additional installation and a little user education; what's more, it runs slow as a dog. A really slow dog. Maybe a dog that was towing a sledge of bricks. The other Mac version is NeoOffice/J, which in my experience, is slightly faster, but the project, while a valiant effort, hasn't released version 2.0 yet. Version 1.1, which I've used for a few months, is decent, but still slow compared to Microsoft Office. On the other hand, it doesn't make me want to gouge my eyes out. At the recent OpenOffice convention, according to Tim Bray, a Mac port of OOo using Cocoa will be attempted soon. Sounds like I've heard that before somewhere.