The new beta also provides for a database front end. The features page for the beta suggests that OO.org always had a db tool, but only now have they begun work making it more visible and public. But more related to the thread is their WordPerfect filter. A good description here: http://wp.openoffice.org/filter.html
Basically, they say right now it can import most WP documents but they don't have an export filter yet. Seeing as how I don't own WP I can't very easily test that feature for accuracy, but the mailing list (the parts that work anyways) seem to imply that it isn't perfect yet, but then this is a beta, after all.
Justin Dugger
Whats interesting is that the Linux version of Adabas was released along with StarOffice 5.1 and 5.2, so if you put up with the StarOffice desktop you could have a database application as part of the suite for free. I don't know if OpenOffice.org has added a database app yet. I doubt it, the assumption seems to be that MySQL is easier to learn than it is. :(