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Gobe Productive: A lightweight alternative to MS Office
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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Subscribe to commentsGardiner WestboundJan 24th 2008 8:39AM
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.
GeirJan 24th 2008 9:41AM
Well, there's IBM Lotus Symphony as well...
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa
YayajaJan 24th 2008 11:08AM
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.
AalaapJan 24th 2008 12:40PM
Google Docs?
harmxJan 24th 2008 12:52PM
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!
Jonathan HarfordJan 24th 2008 2:14PM
Why would I pay $50 for something that's been released under the GPL?
Supposedly.
michaelJan 25th 2008 12:04AM
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.
mteleshaJan 27th 2008 12:14AM
I prefer Abiword. Its the best light weight word processor when you don't have access to Google Docs. www.abisource.com