Openoffice version 2 is close to release and is quite usable now. A tarball of rpm packages is available at: http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html
The current version is 1.9.79. It includes a number of new features including a database similar to M$ Access. It opens faster and has a new file format with extension .odt. Do check out. Download size is around 95 MB for GNU/Linux.