Gobe Software Announces Hitachi Prius Bundle

RELEASED NOVEMBER 10, 1998

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Bruce Q. Hammond, bruceq@gobe.com
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Gobe Software Announces Hitachi Prius Bundle
Gobe Productive - Powerful Integrated Office Software for the BeOS®

  Portland, OR (Nov 11, 1998) -- Gobe Software, Inc. today announced that Gobe Productive, its powerful office application for the Be Operating System (BeOS) will be bundled with Hitachi's "Flora Prius" line of computers starting in December.

The Hitachi "Flora Prius" line consists of desktop and notebook computers based on the Intel Pentium II CPU. The desktop computers come with flat panel LCD monitors, and in one model the CPU and monitor are integrated into one unit.

"We set out to create an extremely powerful "office" technology that takes advantage of the power of the BeOS," said Bruce Q. Hammond, Gobe's Vice President of Marketing. "This set of productivity tools is a perfect compliment to the multimedia rich BeOS system. Gobe Productive shows the extraordinary power of the Hitachi Flora Prius computers, and we are expecting this to generate a lot of excitement."

Gobe Productive is an extensible "office" system. This next-generation productivity software combines a suite of powerful but easy-to-use tools, including:

Word Processing - a tightly integrated word processor with style sheets, discontinuous selections and spell checking.

Spreadsheet - a high-powered spreadsheet providing over 100 built-in functions, links between spreadsheet frames, named ranges, and discontinuous selections. Graphics - provides a full suite of draw tools, gradients, pens, and textures. Charting - create pie, bar, and line charts. Zoom through 3D charts. Presentation - create a powerful slide show using any combination of Gobe Productive parts.

All of these Gobe Productive parts can be mixed together in any combination in one document, allowing almost unlimited content creation power for the user. These parts also share many of the same formatting functions, so learning how to use one part makes users more productive in all the others.

About Gobe Software, Inc.

Formed in 1996 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Gobe Software, Inc. creates high quality productivity software. For more information about Gobe Software, Inc. and its products , see the company web site at http://www.gobe.com.

About the BeOS

The Be Operating System, from Be, Inc. (http://www.be.com) is a new low -cost high-performance, lightweight operating system for desktop computers that utilize high-bandwidth digital media in real-time. Founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gassée, Be, Inc. is focused on building new foundations for the next generation of digital content and media design tools.

About Hitachi Ltd.

Hitachi Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan is the worlds largest electronics company. Hitachi manufactures a wide range of high quality computer hardware, peripherals, and semiconductors.

©1998 Gobe Software Inc. All Rights Reserved. Gobe and Gobe Productive are trademarks of Gobe Software Inc. Be and BeOS are registered trademarks of Be, Inc. Hitachi and Flora Prius are trademarks of Hitachi LTD. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.