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Gobe Productive: A lightweight alternative to MS Office
by Ian Dumych Jan 24th 2008 at 8:00AM
When it comes to office software, these days it seems like the only choice one has is to either buy Microsoft Office or Star Office, or download OpenOffice. While MS Office and Star/Open Office have many features that distinguish them from each other, they also have one thing in common: bloat.Look out for the underdog. At a svelte sixteen megabytes, Gobe Productive can do most anything that the big two can do, but with less of the loading time and lag. As opposed to the common office "suite", Gobe is a single, well integrated application that is capable of dealing with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings. Of course, what good is all that without file compatibility? Worry not, it speaks fluent Microsoft.
Gobe Productive is available for download as a 30 day trial for Windows, and a new version with support for Linux and Mac OS X is in the works.
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Gardiner Westbound said 8:39AM on 1-24-2008
I solved the MS Office problem by sticking with Office 2000. It does everything I want. At 50 megabytes it's not skinny, but it loads reasonably quickly.
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Geir said 9:41AM on 1-24-2008
Well, there's IBM Lotus Symphony as well...
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa
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Yayaja said 11:08AM on 1-24-2008
30 day trials are great, but $49.95 for the full version? If you are right this is just a stripped and lightened version of something that is available for free, so i don't see why this should cost anything, much less 50 bucks.
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Aalaap said 12:40PM on 1-24-2008
Google Docs?
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harmx said 12:52PM on 1-24-2008
I used to use this on my favourite BeOS! I think I still got a coupon for a free linux port they promised (when it became available); that was now many years ago.
Still, good to see it though!
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Jonathan Harford said 2:14PM on 1-24-2008
Why would I pay $50 for something that's been released under the GPL?
Supposedly.
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michael said 12:04AM on 1-25-2008
Why would anybody buy a knockoff copy of Office?
Just get the real thing. It's practically blows all the other office suites out of the water.
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mtelesha said 12:14AM on 1-27-2008
I prefer Abiword. Its the best light weight word processor when you don't have access to Google Docs. www.abisource.com
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