Gobe Software Announces Support for BeOS® R4

RELEASED NOVEMBER 16, 1998

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Gobe Software Announces Support for BeOS® R4
Gobe Productive - Powerful Integrated Office Software for the BeOS

  Las Vegas, Nevada (Nov 16, 1998) -- Gobe Software, Inc. today at Comdex previewed Gobe Productive 1.1, its powerful office application for the Be Operating System (BeOS), running under the next version of BeOS, R4, and announced that it will be released soon after BeOS R4 is available.

"We expect that all of our customers are going to upgrade to BeOS R4 soon after it's released so we are committed to having Gobe Productive ready for them," says Scott Holdaway, President of Gobe Software. In addition to R4 support, Gobe Productive 1.1 includes changes for internationalization (including Japanese text entry), and numerous other feature enhancements. Gobe Productive 1.1 will be available for both the Intel and PPC versions of BeOS R4, and 1.1 will also be a free upgrade to registered owners of Gobe Productive.

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.

©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.

About Be

Be, Inc., founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gassée, is a software company focusing on building new foundations for the next generation of digital content and media design tools. With a team of industry-leading engineers and business executives in the United States and Europe, the company is dedicated to removing the limitations of existing computer architectures and delivering a new level of price performance.

In July 1997, Be published the first public release of the Be Operating System (BeOS), the core product of this strategy. Additional information on Be and the BeOS is available online at http://www.be.com/. Be, Inc. is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.