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I was on the private beta (guessed what the product was a few days ago on their blog), and it's an excellent program. Just the kind of spit and polish you'd expect from the Omni Group. Does round-trip file sharing with MS Project without difficulty (using the MS Project XML file format), has a great (and easy) web publishing feature, and does a waaaay better job of "balancing" resources and schedules than MS Project. (You can balance based on time or resources being fixed -- very nice.)
Given my fond memories of the late, lamented MacProject (which had the best network-based plan-building interfaces ever}, this, coming from one of the best Mac App development houses, sounds nice indeed. Especially given the comment about resource balancing, for which MS Project is useless without plug-ins. Really looking forward to checking it out.
Maybe I won't need Parallels to run MS Project anymore. (Wishful thinking, although without that need, what other excuse can I come up with to upgrade to a new Intel-based Mac?)
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