Microsoft;s Office family of products is poised to obtain but more open-source competition. On August seven,
Windows 7 Pro Product Key, the first day of the LinuxWorld San Francisco display, Projity will officially release a public beta of OpenProj, its freely downloadable open-source competitor to Microsoft Project project-management software program.You'll find already additional than fifty consumers testing the Projity OpenProj software program, based on provider officials. The OpenProj item functions on Windows, Linux,
Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2010, Unix and Mac OsX,
Windows 7 64bit, Projity says. OpenProj can open native Microsoft Task files,
Buy Windows 7, Projity officials mentioned.“(Microsoft) Project is not included in any Office Suites so it is not pre-installed on any computers which means even Windows users need to purchase quite expensive software for their project needs,” based on a press statement released by Projity.My ZDNet blogging colleague Dana Blankenhorn recently noted that you will find talks underway to integrate OpenProj into OpenOffice. As significantly as I know, Projity is not intending to announce any kind of OpenOffice partnership this week,
Microsoft Office 2010 Key, yet.Projity already offers a software-as-a-service Project-ON-Demand offering. The firm says it has signed up additional than 100 companies as buyers of its SaaS product, with considerably with the demand coming from non-U.S.-based companies.Microsoft has been relatively quiet about its future plans for Microsoft Challenge. Is there a “Live Project” service in the works? I wouldn;t be surprised. And Microsoft;s next version of its Team Foundation Server, codenamed “Rosario,” includes hooks into Microsoft; Venture Server product.Do you think OpenProj will make any inroads against Microsoft Job?