The online alternative to Microsoft Project is released under a free license.
Projity decided to release under an open license version of its project management system, which until today was available as a Project-On-Demand web service. According to experts, the new program OpenProj is a very serious bid to press the position of the current leader in this market, Microsoft Project.
OpenProj will be integrated into major Linux distributions including Mandriva, Mint and Sabayon. In addition, negotiations are underway with OpenOffice.org and Sun Microsystems, the StarOffice developer, to integrate OpenProj into these office suites.
Finally, Projity promises to invest “significant resources” in creating a generally accepted open standard for documents for project management programs. This format could complement the OpenDocument Format specifications and become an alternative to the proprietary .mpp / .mpx format from the Microsoft Project program, although OpenProj can also work with it.
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According to the company's management, the translation of OpenProj under an open license will increase the army of users of this program by 7-11 million people, so free software will become a real competitor to Microsoft Project with its 20 million users.
The latest version of MS Project 2007 is sold at clearly inflated prices ( price list ): $ 600 for the standard version and $ 1000 for the professional ($ 350 and $ 600 for the upgrade), and server versions of the program are even more expensive. MS Project is not included in any of the eight standard office suites of MS Office 2007.
At the same time, independent testers say that the free beta OpenProj ( download ) has approximately the same functionality and appearance, but it is even easier to use.
OpenProj and Project-On-Demand are not the first Microsoft Project competitors from the world of free software and SaaS. Previously, a similar attempt was made by the creators of the free system Open Workbench . Project-On-Demand's online competitors included various companies, including Vertabase and eProject .
However, Project-On-Demand seems more successful than all its predecessors. Even the paid version ($ 20 per month) has thousands or tens of thousands of subscribers. The project is integrated into a suite of corporate SaaS services on Salesforce.com.
The developers have not yet decided on which free license to publish OpenProj source code. They would like to use the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL), but this can cause problems when integrating with OpenOffice.org, which is distributed under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
via Computerworld
OpenProj will be integrated into major Linux distributions including Mandriva, Mint and Sabayon. In addition, negotiations are underway with OpenOffice.org and Sun Microsystems, the StarOffice developer, to integrate OpenProj into these office suites.
Finally, Projity promises to invest “significant resources” in creating a generally accepted open standard for documents for project management programs. This format could complement the OpenDocument Format specifications and become an alternative to the proprietary .mpp / .mpx format from the Microsoft Project program, although OpenProj can also work with it.
')
According to the company's management, the translation of OpenProj under an open license will increase the army of users of this program by 7-11 million people, so free software will become a real competitor to Microsoft Project with its 20 million users.
The latest version of MS Project 2007 is sold at clearly inflated prices ( price list ): $ 600 for the standard version and $ 1000 for the professional ($ 350 and $ 600 for the upgrade), and server versions of the program are even more expensive. MS Project is not included in any of the eight standard office suites of MS Office 2007.
At the same time, independent testers say that the free beta OpenProj ( download ) has approximately the same functionality and appearance, but it is even easier to use.
OpenProj and Project-On-Demand are not the first Microsoft Project competitors from the world of free software and SaaS. Previously, a similar attempt was made by the creators of the free system Open Workbench . Project-On-Demand's online competitors included various companies, including Vertabase and eProject .
However, Project-On-Demand seems more successful than all its predecessors. Even the paid version ($ 20 per month) has thousands or tens of thousands of subscribers. The project is integrated into a suite of corporate SaaS services on Salesforce.com.
The developers have not yet decided on which free license to publish OpenProj source code. They would like to use the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL), but this can cause problems when integrating with OpenOffice.org, which is distributed under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
via Computerworld
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/12981/
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