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3. MS-DOS/NT Software

3.1 What MSDOS PD/Shareware project management software is available ?

These might be useful to you if you require a DOS package or if you run an OS that runs a DOS emulator (eg: SoftPC from Insignia for Sun SPARC).

NOTE - IF YOU CAN'T FIND THESE FILES AT THE LOCATIONS BELOW, PLEASE USE ARCHIE TO FIND THEM ON THE NET - _DON'T_ MAIL ME ASKING WHERE THEY ARE - IF I AM TOLD OF A NEW LOCATION I WILL UPDATE THIS FILE.

Easy Project

Company

Parcell Software,

Address

PO Box 165, Geneva, Il 60134, USA.

Email

Compuserve: 72250, 1356

Platforms

DOS

Miscellaneous

Shareware project planner. Available for ftp from ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/projmgmt/ezprj402.zip ftp.nic.surfnet.nl:/mirror-archive/software/simtel-msdos/projmgr/ezprj402.zip ftp.sunet.se:/pub/pc/mirror/SimTel/msdos/projmgr/ezprj402.zip

Date

94/09

Submitted by

pete@smtl.co.uk (Pete Phillips)

Ganttman

Company

Max-Million Software Labs,

Address

1314 Cardigan, Garland, Tx. 75040.

Email

Compuserve 74017, 3424

Miscellaneous

Available for ftp from ftp.simtel.net:/pub/simtel.net/msdos/flowchrt/ganttman.zipftp.nic.surfnet.nl:/mirror-archive/software/simtel-msdos/flowchrt/ganttman.zip ftp.sunet.se:/pub/pc/mirror/SimTel/msdos/flowchrt/ganttman.zip freebsd.cdrom.com:/.2/SimTel/msdos/flowchrt/ganttman.zip

Mainline

Company

Minuteman Systems

Address

P.O. Box 152 Belmont MA 02178

Email

bck@world.std.com

Miscellaneous

Shareware PM system. Available for ftp from oak.oakland.edu:pub/msdos/projmgr/mnlin2p2.zip

Date

94/09

Submitted by

pete@smtl.co.uk (Pete Phillips)

PlanBee

Company

Guy Software

Address

1752 Duchess Avenue West Vancouver British Columbia V7V 1P9 Canada

Miscellaneous

Shareware: 30 day free trial, $39.98 single user.

Platforms

MS-Win 95, 98, NT

Home Page

http://www.guysoftware.com/planbee.htm

Date

99/09

Submitted by

ed@guysoftware.com

Open Plan

Company

Welcom Software Technology

Address

In the UK: South Bank TechnoPark, 90 London Rd, London SE1 6LN

In the USA: 15995 N BARKERS LANDING RD, STE 275, HOUSTON TX 77079-2494

Phone No.

UK: +44 20 7401 2626 USA: (281) 558 0514

Fax No.

UK: +44 20 7922 8865 USA: (281) 584 7828

Email

support@wst.com sales@wst.com (for sales) info@wst.com (for info)

Platforms

Only available for MS-Windows 95/98/NT.

Miscellaneous

Also have branches and distributors in France, Germany, Australia, and South Africa; See the web site for more information.

The following is courtesy of Welcom:

OPEN PLAN is a project management package, which can be used "as-is", providing the following features:
  • Project Executive (an interactive barcharting tool for planners)
  • Time Analysis
  • Progress Tracking
  • Comprehensive Resource Scheduling
  • Multi-Project Scheduling
  • On-Line Help
  • Support of ADM & PDM projects
  • A large number of standard reports, featuring barcharts, S-curves, network logic diagrams, tables, WBS & OBS structure diagrams, and many more.
Or it can be easily customised to meet extended project management needs through the use of built-in screen editors and report writers, or through use of an Xbase 4GL and database. With its use of Xbase and WRL, Welcom's Reporting Language, Open Plan is very flexible as to the methods of input and output, and supports most output devices under DOS & Mac. On Unix and Vax, the output devices supported are:
  • text printers
  • HPGL compatible devices
  • Postscript devices (including Sun Pageview preview to the screen)
  • Regis graphics terminals

All platforms are capable of multi-user access with record-locking, and all platforms require an Xbase interpreter (such as dBase, Foxpro or similar)

Date of entry.

GRANEDA

Company

NETRONIC Software GmbH

Address

WWW

http://www.netronic.de/

Platforms

MS-Windows

3.2 What MS-DOS/NT commercial project management software is available ?

SLIM line

Company

QSM

Address

2000 Corporate Ridge Suite 900 McLean, Virginia 22102

WWW

www.qsm.com

Platforms

For MS-Windows

Miscellaneous

Software project management package. (Entered 99/09/08)

Texim Project

Company

Welcom Software

Address

See above in the UNIX section for contact info.

Platforms

For MS-Windows 3.1 and Windows NT

Miscellaneous

From Welcom Software:

Texim Project provides a new way of organizing and developing project plans. It offers state-of-the-art project management capabilities that combine task, resource, and cost information in an interactive graphical environment. It offers many options for data entry, review and reporting. It provides multi-project management through graphical WBS and OBS charts. The Time-scaled network diagram and full risk management features help to separate Texim Project from other PC products. Texim Project has a seamless data exchange with Welcom Software's other project planning system, Open Plan. Texim is a stand-alone product for Windows 3.1
NOTE - Texim is being phased out, and is being replaced with Open Plan Desktop which is a subset of Open Plan Professional, their high-end application. (Thanks to "Mathias Hueske" (hueske@vb.vwl.th-darmstadt.de) for this on 21st March, 1996.)

Milestones, Etc. for Windows (V5.0)

Company

Kidasa Software

Address

Sean F. Barbera, Sales Manager, KIDASA Software, Inc. 1114 Lost Creek Blvd. Suite 300 Austin, Texas 78746 USA

Phone No.

(512)328-0167

Fax No.

(512)328-0247

Email

Kidasa1@aol.com

Platforms

Windows 95, Windows NT

Price

        Single User - $199.00 US
    
Miscellaneous

Easy and flexible project management and scheduling tool. Track and manage your projects using a simple click-and-drag method. Create presentation quality output, from simple Gantt charts to detailed master schedules, all in a matter of minutes. Schedule Setup Wizard walks the user step-by-step through the creation of their schedule, making setup easy. Built-in outliner facilitates organization of the project. Task roll-up, summary bars and automatic WBS numbering work in conjunction with outlined schedules. Calculate progress easily using status symbols and/or a percentage complete column. Display a task's duration in minutes, hours, days or weeks. Display the schedules timescale in minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, quarters, years or fiscal years. You can even design your own! With the included Datagraph feature, plot time-phased numeric data on the schedule to support earned value matrices or other numerical documentation that needs to be tracked. Compatible with MS Projects MPX file format. Supports OLE 2.0 and OLE automation, letting the schedule work in combination with your existing applications. HyperLink lets the user attach any Windows document, even Internet/Intranet addresses, then activate the links with a single mouse click. Produce JPEG, BMP and HTML files to publish schedules for Internet/Intranet use. Network version available.

Application: project management, scheduling, planning

Compatible with: 32 bit: Windows 95 & Windows NT 3.5x & 4.0

Media: CD, or 3.5" HD floppy diskette

Minimum RAM required: 4MB

Disk Storage minimum required: 6MB

Additional hardware/software required: Windows NT, or Windows 95

Network compatibility: Networks that support Windows95 or Windows NT

Customer support: Free phone, fax and e-mail support

Also they have a home page, http://www.kidasa.com

Date

June 1997

Submitted by

Sean Barbera (sean_barbera@compuserve.com)

Milestones Simplicity for Windows

Company

Kidasa Software

Address

For contact information, see entry for Milestones, Etc.

Platforms

Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT

Price

Single User - $99.00 US

Miscellaneous

Windows based, including Windows 95, project management tool for planning and managing simple to mid-size projects. Users can produce schedules, including: Gantt, milestone, Line of Balance, and machine cycle schedules. Features include: OLE 2.0, customizable template schedules, drag and drop scheduling, presentation quality output, free-form text option, vertical dependencies, duration calculation, start and end date SmartColumns, legend option, graphics objects, and customizable toolbar. Will operate on any Windows compatible LANs,
including Novell and Banyan.
Date

Aug 1995

Submitted by

Sean Barbera <102425.2033@compuserve.com>

Project Commander

Company

Project Management Software Centre

Address

Project House, 25 Chapel CLose, Barnsley, South Yorks, S72 9QJ, United Kingdom.

Phone No.

(+44)-1226-780930

Fax No.

(+44)-1226-780837

Platforms

DOS/Windows

Miscellaneous

Developed in the UK, it sells for 99 UK Pounds. Does Gantts, Pert, CPA, etc.

Date

July 1994

Submitted by

pete@smtl.co.uk (Pete Phillips)

Microsoft Project for Windows

Company

Microsoft

Platforms

DOS/Windows

Price

About $300. In the UK, around 285.00 pounds.

Miscellaneous

I suspect your S/W dealer can get this for you. Robert Ward robert@olsen.ch suggests that it gives a good idea of what such tools should do. If you have further info on this, please send. Also, http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/project.html has tips for the unwary user of this program. Finally http://www.projectmanagment.com/tools.htm covers companion products for Microsoft Project.

Submitted by

Ulrich R. Herken urh@specs.de Robert Ward robert@olsen.ch Kelvin Kirby technology@dial.pipex.com

SuperProject / CA-SuperProject 3.0

Company

Computer Associates

Platforms

Windows and OS/2.

Price

Approx $900

Miscellaneous

This is a major change from prior versions. Included with the project is CA-Realizer as the macro language (Computer Associates version of Visual Basic). The SuperProject engine is now a dynamic link library (a DLL), fully accessible by CA-Realizer, and is fully accessible by C-language programs. The C-language API is provided with the package. Version 3.0 came out in late 1993. The price I have heard quoted somewhere was about US$900. I got my copy thru an upgrade at considerably less than that."

(I guess you can get this through any PC software dealer ? Pete.)

On Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:11:01, tkuch@gnn.com (Terence Kuch) sent me the following thoughts on this package:

CASuperproject: Industrial-strength PM system, good import/export to Timesheet package (from Time Slips Inc.), lots of canned reports, can sometimes cut a very good deal with CA (US$149 in quantity is possible). However: the package is highly complex, confusing, not suited for the occasional user, doesn't have a modern or very thoughtful user interface. Unless you need a PM system suitable for building a battleship from the hull up, stick with Timeline, MS Project Manager, or comparable products.
Submitted by

Randall Raemon delta1@netcom.com 0005650778@mcimail.com

tkuch@gnn.com (Terence Kuch)

Power Planner

Company

Sphygmic Software

Address

Sphygmic Software Ltd, Skewen, West Glamorgan, UK

Phone No.

+44-1792-323-002

Fax No.

+44-1792-812-843

Email

100343.1144@compuserve.com

Platforms

Windows

Price

25 pounds (UK)

Miscellaneous

Critical Path, Resource scheduling, cost calculation, etc. Exchanges data with MS Project (via MPX), Artemis 7000 and other systems. Data can be summarised by work-breakdown structures, a user code or any valid SQL expression.

Date

27th March, 1996

TeamFlow

Company

CFM Inc.

Address

CFM Inc. Three Jeffrey Circle P.O. Box 353 Bedford, MA 01730

Phone No.

800-647-1708

Phone No.

781-275-5258

Web

http://www.teamflow.com/

Platforms

Windows 95/98, NT

Price

$295 single user; network licenses available

Miscellaneous

Organizational Chart, Gantt Chart, Cost/Schedule Tracking. Internet capability. Lotus Notes interfaces.

Date

7th April, 2000

Project KickStart

Company

Experience in Software Inc.

Address

Experience in Software Inc. 2000 Hearst Ave. Berkeley, CD 94709

Phone No.

800-678-7008

Phone No.

510-644-0694

Web

http://www.projectkickstart.com/

Platforms

Windows 3.1, 95/98, NT

Price

$99.95

Miscellaneous

Gantt Chart, Spell Checking, Assignments by People. Links to other project tools. Save as HTML.

Date

7th April, 2000


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