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Looking At Gobe
mneptok writes: "OSNews is running a review of a beta version of Gobe Productive, the office productivity suite initially developed for BeOS by the former producers of ClarisWorks. The beta tested by OSNews is for Windows, but a Linux GTK (and that's toolkit only) version is planned for release after the Win32 version ships. A public beta of the Win32 version is imminent. Looks like a nice, affordable 'army knife' office app for Windows users, and a serious contender in the Linux office space." We had some coverage of this a while back,
Gobe Productive is a nice suite including plain old word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, illustration, and presentation. If you remember it was originally planned for BeOS 3.2 on Intel architecture. A few beta versions were released for Be. My question is why would they come out with Gobe only for Windows? It is pretty obvious that Microsoft Office DOMINATES in all the things Gobe does and (argueably) does these things better. It seems that it would be a better choice if they released this software on platforms like Mac, Linux, Unix, BSD etc. first and maybe Windows later. It is an alternative at the least to MS Office. It is going to cost less ($124) than Office but it is going to be hard to get users to change to Gobe. The good thing is that the $124 allows you to install it at home and at work without fearing liscensing issues.
Hopefully the Linux version of Gobe will do better than the Windows version. Somehow I just don't think it will sell at all on the Windows platform except to a few ex-BeOS users.
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Still, I haven't used the software, maybe it IS an OfficeXP killer. My point is: It'd have to be.
Does OfficeXP have a similar license-validation mechanism to what Windows-XP has? If it does, then OfficeXP will be the OfficeXP killer.