gobeProductive 3.0 - Office XP killer?

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday March 27, 2002 @12:56AM 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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Linux? by xonos · 2002-03-27 01:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

maybe i am an idiot, but i do not see anywhere on the gobe site where it mentions linux.
Re:Being a trifle optimistic, aren't we? by flipflapflopflup · 2002-03-27 01:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

> Is that like singing in "shit tone"?

That's what you get for ranting without checking your typing...