The Open Office development team released the stable version of Open Office 2 earlier this week.
If you need a functional office package, with word processing, spreadsheets, presentations etc., then it makes an attractive alternative to MS Office.
The Irish mirror is hosted by heanet and is probably a safer bet than the main download servers at the moment
Oct 22

From Ed:
It’s fantastic. The improvements over 1.x are remarkable. This is actual competition for MS Office and it supports open standards. God bless Sun for releasing their source code.
From blacknight:
Ed
I’m not a power user, but I have found it’s handling of MS documents to be very impressive compared with 1.x