Would you choose neoOffice over openOffice?

Hello all,
I'm very new to Apple. I've purchase my first iMac last September and this is my first post.
I'm interested in installing either of these products. Office 2011 for Mac is out of the question as I don't do enough work at home to warrant purchasing it.
The last post I've read regarding the same question was circa 2006.
Anyways what are the pros & cons between the two? At the moment I'm inclined to install openOffice.
Your thoughts and guidance are appreciated.

Neooffice, when it first came out, was a vast improvement of the user interface over Openoffice, which had not been fully ported over to OSX at that time. The current version of Openoffice is fully ported to OSX so that is no longer an issue. Others may have other thoughts about Neooffice, but that was the reason I first started using it.
There is another fork of Openoffice called Libreoffice. This version was created after a falling out by some of the programers of Openoffice from Oracle when Oracle took over Sun. I went from Neooffice, to Openoffice to Libreoffice. Other than the user interface issue above (which is no longer an issue anyway,) I don't see any significant reason to choose one over the other, as far as features go. However, my needs for an Office suite are quite simple so YMMV of course.
BTW, I use Office 2011 because of my need for Outlook. Most of the time, I'm using Libreoffice for word processing and spreadsheets and only open Word and Excel when I get one of those dreaded DOCX or XLSX files. Openoffice and Libreoffice still have issues with some formatting of text and tables in DOCX. So if you have to deal with the current MSOffice files a lot, then you might not have a choice except to buy MSOffice.

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