BTW, their website could use some nice colourings ;) facevalue is what attracts potential users.
On Jan 25, 2:26 pm, "Subir Pradhanang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2073 > > Open source app challenges Microsoft Project > James Archibald, January 23, 2008 > > *Linux, Unix, Windows, Mac:* Open source and software as a service company, > Projity <http://openproj.org/>, is going head-to-head with Microsoft > Project, having released its open source scheduling application, OpenProj > 1.0 <http://openproj.org/openproj>. Available for Linux, Unix, Mac or > Windows, OpenProj opens native Microsoft Project Files and the developers > claim that it has equivalent functionality to the proprietary Office product > it is attempting to oust. > > The initial beta was announced late last year and since then 200 000 users > across 132 countries have joined and tested the software. So far, Projity > has been translated into Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Swedish, > Russian, Korean and Chinese, with many other languages pending. > > "OpenProj has given the marketplace an alternative to commercial project > management software on the desktop that is available on Linux, Unix, Mac or > windows and now in localized languages around the world," said Marc O'Brien, > chief executive of Projity. > > In addition to making OpenProj freely available, Projity offers a software > as a service, Project-ON-Demand, which can be accessed by multiple users via > a browser. Migration between the two programs is said to be seamless. > > It will be interesting to see how well this open source alternative is > picked up, filling an open source gap left by the successful > OpenOffice.orgcollection of programs. > > According to the release, Project is installed on seven percent of all > desktops with Microsoft Office. > A look at the > screenshot:http://www.tectonic.co.za/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/openpr... > > -- > Subir B. Pradhanang > subirbp.livejournal.comwww.fossnepal.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
