The interface was its own and it did some very impressive things. If anything, it’s more of an AppleWorks relative–not a clone, justa relative. GobeProductive 3 was (and is?) not a Microsoft Office clone. The only answer that YellowTab provided is that they were working with a “3rd party” on the issue. There has been discussion on YellowTab’s forums about the problem of Gobe Ploductive avalibility. ![]() and YellowTab BEFORE Be sold the IP to Palm Inc. According the the reports from CeBit, this was due to a contract between Be Inc. I am NOT speaking for Gobe Software, but if you haven’t kept up on the tech news lately, then you may be please to know that the next release of BeOS (R6) will be released soon by YellowTab (under the name of Zeta. Most likely, when Claris was sold to Apple, there may have been a clause that any new company created by the original team could not compete against AppleWorks. At first, they only provided Gobe Productive for BeOS. Not likely… after Claris Works was sold to Apple (which bacame AppleWorks), the management started a new company called Gobe Software. It just emulates the KDE 3.0.x look&feel, as well as Win98 and others. PS> Though it looks like it, SoftMaker is most definately *not* a Qt app. That alone might be enough of a reason to throw some money their way. From a cursory look, it’s MS importer seems quite good. ![]() In 2003, I should not have to tell companies that 12 point means 1/6 of an inch, not 16 pixels! Otherwise, the software is pretty nifty. The Linux demo has a major flaw though - it doesn’t use the native X font system, and hence ignores the DPI setting. I can’t tell you the number of times my Dad has nearly killed his computer for losing half an hour of work. I personally hope they build some kind of version control into this. ![]() I’ve had most of those features (automatic backup, automatic update, worldwide access) for awhile now, courtesy of the Subversion (previously CVS) server in my basement, but it’d be nice to see these benifets coming to the masses. OMG! Not more software! Why don’t Gobe and SoftMaker unify there efforts and make *one* good office suite! Sorry about that, but you knew it was coming Seriously, though, the features list for SoftMaker looks cool.
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