Filed under: Business, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Commercial
Gobe Productive: A lightweight alternative to MS Office
by Ian Dumych Jan 24th 2008
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.
