I don't see what re-writing what is already a very cross-platform oriented codebase buys anyone except Sun's marketing dept.

And as for my second suggestion, it appears that the OpenOffice.org team is planning on [link|http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/roadmap.html#OO638|doing just that].

This probably also means that the original story I posted is confused and that the Java involved refers to the ability to write plug-ins for the suite in Java. I see alot of people make the assumption that StarOffice is written in Java because it a)contains/uses a JRE for said plugins, b)is slow to start up, and c) comes from Sun.