cory@dspvax.mit.edu (Cory Myers) (06/05/90)
Our company is interested in project management software that runs on the Sun and would provide us with increased capabilities over our current system (MacProject II). We want to use the software for single project planning, multiple project planning, and tracking of projects. Our projects tend to be dominated by manpower rather than material concerns. The primary complaint we have with MacProject II is that it does not remember the report formats that we want to use all the time. I am sure that there are features that it does not have that wold be also useful to us. The Catalyst book lists twelve different packages and I have the two page description of SunTrac. I would like to here from anyone who is willing to share either positive or negative recommendations for any project managament software. Thanks in advance, Cory Myers Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation 470 Totten Pond Road Waltham, MA 02154 (617) 890-4200 cory%aaec1.uucp@dspvax.mit.edu
roberts@studguppy.LANL.GOV (Doug Roberts) (06/05/90)
In article <8479@brazos.Rice.edu> aaec1!cory@dspvax.mit.edu (Cory Myers) writes: |The Catalyst book lists twelve different packages and I have the two page description of SunTrac. I would like to here from anyone who is willing to share either positive or negative recommendations for any project managament software. Thanks in advance, I strongly discourage you from considering SunTrac. I've used it for the past two years to manage two of my medium-to-large-scale simulation design projects (~6 man-years each), and have found it lacking. The following are the primary problems I've found with SunTrac: 1. The support for it has been pathetic. I've reported numerous bugs over the past two years, and Sun has been unusually non-responsive to the reported problems. 2. Sun no longer supports SunTrac. At the moment, it is an orphan. Sun reports that they are seeking a third party contractor to assume the maintenance responsibilities for the product. 3. It isn't very full featured, in those areas where it _does_ work (i.e., in those areas where it isn't broken). I think you are better off, in terms of functionality, with MacProject II. I am on the verge of chucking SunTrac, at the expense of manually re-entering a 6 man-year project schedule into some other critical path project management package. --Doug