Gobe Productive 3

I got my copy of Gobe Productive 3, the first version available for Windows, in the mail today… I had played around with the public betas they had made available and was surprised at their stability… The release version seems to stand up to my abuse well, and it will be nice to have a Office suite installed that doesn’t suck down vile amounts of my disk. It’s installation seems to be around 40 megs, but including 7 megs of spell-check dictionaries in many languages and 17 megs of manual, not to mention the various sample documents and all…

One of the most amusing, and somewhat depressing, aspects of the installation was noticing the “libbe.dll” that exists in Productive’s directory… My guess is that it is some kind of compatibility layer providing some of the functionality that Gobe engineers were missing in Windows… I noticed that there is also a “Translators” directory, so perhaps one of those technologies was the Translation Kit.. Of course, libbe.dll is 800K, so I suspect there is more to it than just the Translation Kit….

I just realized that I had a rental that needed to be returned about 3 minutes from now… Oh well.. :)