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Review at ArsTechnica... gobe Productive 3.03 $125 USD/$75 intro price at gobe.com Interesting review of another alternative to the usual office suite. While version 2.0 was released for now-defunct BeOS, this version is being released for Windows and Linux (Linux version to be delivered later in 2002). "This is great software, but it isn’t an Office killer, nor is it designed to be. gobeProductive is designed to be a lighter, faster office suite. It runs great on slower machines, and is in general intended to be a more compact solution for creating, editing, and viewing documents." And compare this to your favorite monopolist's licensing agreement: "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." (from gobe.com) I'm using Sun's StarOffice suite at home now, and the price tag on that is extremely tough to beat (StarOffice 5.2 is free). But it is a bit slow on old hardware (P233/64MB RAM). I'm also still looking forward to seeing what StarOffice 6 (which won't be free) and its cousin OpenOffice (which will still be free) will look like, but it's nice to know there is yet another quality alternative available at a reasonable price. The suite is full-featured and integrated, including word processing, spreadsheet, image manipulation, image creation, and presentation creation functions, and has a small footprint (7MB of RAM used with a document open versus 11MB for MS Office with no document in memory). It can import some Microsoft formats reasonable well, and can save as PDF so you need not worry that no one will be able to see your documents. ArsTechnica gave it 8/10. I'll take their word for it, personally (finances restrict me to using free software exclusively...), but perhaps someone else out there was looking for an alternative to their expensive monolithic Office suite.

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