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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. Compatible by flipflapflopflup · · Score: 5, Insightful

    *The* most important thing with new Office suite, is compatibility. Near 100% compatibility.

    Oh, 1st post too ;o)

  2. Ram usage doesn't matter???! by Lawrence_Bird · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Speak for yourself buddy. Anybody running multiple applications knows how quick you can chew up 300MB. And I'm not talking about doing graphics work. I work in the financial industry and my basic daily setup eats up 270Mb to start. Open a pdf in your web browswer and tack on another 20+ until you manually kill the acrobat task.

    Its a really bad attitude to have that ram use doesnt matter. Its just an invitation to more sloppy programing and feature bloat.

    1. Re:Ram usage doesn't matter???! by larien · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Our systems here only have 128MB of RAM. I discovered last week that isn't even enough to run Windows 2000 on; I wanted to defrag the disk fully so I removed all paging spaces. I couldn't even open the defragger before it complained about being out of virtual memeory.

      Add on to that the programs I have running all the time (explorer, Outlook, Xvision) it makes running anything else (Word, Excel, SAP etc) a complete git.

  3. Mmm... Fair Use... by MrHat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only $75, and they actually give you the rights an ordinary person would expect when buying something. Look:

    "You are allowed to install gobeProductive on each Windows and Linux computer in your own residence. You are also allowed to install gobeProductive on your computer where you work. A certificate is included in the gobeProductive package explaining to your employer that this is allowed."

    I'm one of those XHTML-or-die people, but I may have to give this a look.

  4. Re:waste by Tim+C · · Score: 5, Insightful


    2) cpu power is not a concern
    3) memory usage is not a concern

    Try telling that to someone who's tearing their hair out at 8pm on a Friday trying to get something finished so that they can finally go home, only to have their underspecced machine grind to a halt as it swaps due to lack of RAM, and/or run at a snail's pace due to a slow CPU.

    Admittedly, I'm speaking from the perspective of a programmer, but for me, resource usage is of paramount concern. My work must be finished on time, and I don't get paid overtime. "Sorry it's late, but my PC is too slow to run the software I use" is not something the client will accept if a deadline is missed.

    Cheers,

    Tim

    --
    It's official. Most of you are morons.