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gobeProductive 3.0 - Office XP killer?

Posted by Hemos on from the somethihg-that-goes-head-to-head dept.

Deffexor writes "It appears that gobe (that famous software company that made the invaluable "office suite" for BeOS) has unveiled their v3.0 release of gobeProductive for Windows and Linux. ArsTechnica has an excellent review of why this is such an important "office suite". While gobeProductive isn't as full-featured as OfficeXP, it certainly does garner a whole lot of Bang-for-the-Buck (especially with the FamilyLicense). The author does a great job of summarizing the superiority of gobeProductive in his conclusion when he says,"This review, which is fifteen pages of graphics and text (in the word processor), along with 5 separate sheets chock full of information, only uses 7MB of RAM while running. Microsoft Word XP (WINWORD.EXE), sitting idle with nothing open, uses 11MB of RAM."" Of course, RAM usage doesn't matter as much these days, with the standard RAM installed being above 128 megs, but still good to know. Update by RM, 8:58 US EST: Only the Windows version of gobeProductive v3.0 seems to be available at this time.

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  1. it cant compare to office... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    gobe cant compare to office.

    it's not extortionately priced enough for corporations to bother with.

    feature wise its excellent :)

  2. Guess Not... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    From the article about being the Office XP Killer:

    "I'll address this issue right off the bat. This is great software, but it isn't an Office killer, nor is it designed to be."

    I don't think you can kill Office. It's like the Tick - it may not be all that smart, but it's darn near indestructable! Just think of all the businesses and institutions using Access databases. In our small unit of about 30 people we have over 10 individual databases written in Microsoft Access. So if we need Access, we're getting the rest of Office anyway.

  3. Office killer?? by Shiar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does it have the paperclip?