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- iNik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I 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.)
The public beta should be out next week, so take a look at it. This is THE project management app for small-mid sized project teams. - pygmalion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They hyped this so much on their blog. We even got a blurry preview of the icon as well as a clean but very cropped sneak peak at the same icon a few days later. Let's hope it lives up to the excitement. That being said, it does come from the folks who brought us OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner, so I wouldn't be too worried...
- NSResponder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It will kick ass. Count on it.
-jcr - dBass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Have you seen Merlin ß2?
http://www.projectwizards.net/en/merlin2/features
I'm curious what you think about Merlin vs. OmniPlan ß1.
Cheers! - iamcam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Agreed. My boss LOVES Omni software. One more thing to add to our list of "We have to install these on all our computers immediately."
But hey - I'm not one to complain. I'm a huge fan of OmniGraffle - chadseld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm going to buy this for my boss. :) This is an area of OS X that is ripe for the plundering. They are going to make bank.
- yvovandoorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They are hiring for a Systems Guru (aka OS X Admin)... biweekly massages and dinner prepared by their cook.... sounds like working for Google.
- Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As a big Omigraffle fan, I'm really rather excited by this. They make the dullest software so damn elegant it becomes a real pleasure to use.
- NSResponder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I haven't seen OmniPlan yet, but I have poked around with Merlin a bit. My take is that they're both likely to be vastly better than MS Project (not meaning to damn them with faint praise, of course.)
Merlin is a fine bit of work. I also have every reason to believe that OmniPlan will be, too.
-jcr - jdevaney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2OmniGroup along with Panic are 2 companies that understand macintosh software. This will be a big plus when it becomes available next week.
- kcase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sorry, it sounds like you must have somehow missed the OmniWeb 5.5 public beta. (It's been available as a "sneaky peek" build since April, but we just released it as a public beta on Wednesday.) For more information, see http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/download/beta/.
- Coder0000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This sounds incredible! Definitely the one missing link for using a Mac in a PC centric office environment. MS Project is completely crap, and if this lives up to even half the polish and perfection in other Omni apps, I will be ecstatic.
- drycounty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All it needs to have is three things: Gantt charts, non-internet interface (if you prefer and/or are away from the office or internet) and (maybe) integration with existing Omni products to be a far superior product, imho.
This will kick ass. - NSResponder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Omni has a great deal of experience with this kind of thing already. They were largely responsible for a previous product sold by Lighthouse Designs, called "TaskMaster".
-jcr - nfxmedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would like to see how it stacks up to my current favorite Project Management software, Daylite 3.
- kcase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Omni was doing a lot of work with Lighthouse back when TaskMaster was written, but I'm afraid we didn't really have anything to do with writing it. Still, we'll try not to disappoint with OmniPlan!
- infinitespecter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sweet! I am working on my masters in project management and anything that gets me away from Project is a bonus.
- NSResponder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I stand corrected. Thanks for filling me in, Ken.
-jcr - arthurbarnhouse, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2The idea of not having to use a PC to do MS project crap makes my mouth water. Makes me wish, yet again, that apple would make the computer I need.
- bouncebounce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Agreed. I've been using iTaskX and it's OK, but it's awfully busy interface is quite intimidating.
- fyngyrz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1OK, I've downloaded it and am running it now. flickr works now; I'll explore the rest of my bug list and write if I find anything still broken from my previous reports.
Thank you for finally addressing these problems, which I first corresponded with you about in October of 2005.
I really do think Omniweb is the best browser I have ever used; the tab system is the best, the by-site RegEx blocking methodology is easily the most powerful and effective I've found, workspaces are great, by-site preferences are the best thing since ad-blocking... I'm *delighted* that you're still updating the product.
I think if more Mac users would give it a try (now that its working properly!) you could make some serious inroads. I only went to FireFox when Omniweb couldn't handle my day to day "normal" websites. - MKhurana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I checked out OmniPlan over the weekend. I have to say though while Omni apps are really great a really professional project management tool is Merlin 2 www.merlin2.net. They too have been running a public beta and a look into this will reveal functions that all project managers have dreamed about on a MAC!
- mphillips, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you're looking to get away from MS Project and still want robust features, check out Vertabase Pro. (disclaimer - I work for them.) Its gotten great reviews and is totally mac friendly.
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- fyngyrz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It's also from the same people who brought us Omniweb, the browser with EASILY the most potential to be the best browser out there, and then didn't bugfix it for freaking EVER.... it's been unable to work with flickr and other sites for many, many months, no patches, no fixes, no updates, just (so far empty) promises to someday use Apple's new webkit. I'm feeling more than a little wary of buying any more Omni-ware until they fix the darned browser. It's one thing to release a new product; it's entirely another to fail to support it. I know everything has bugs; I expect it. I can live with it. What I can't live with is having the bugs ignored indefinitely.
- jamiequint, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It's going to have to be REALLY good to steal me away from using Basecamp.
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