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Serena Software has acquired Projity for OpenProj, its free, open source desktop project management software, and Project-ON-Demand, its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based project management software.

 

OpenProj offers similar functionality as Microsoft (News - Alert) Project, with support for multiple platforms. The success of OpenProj, with more than 600,000 downloads in 142 countries over the last year alone, shows there is considerable market opportunity for an open source alternative to commercial desktop project management applications.

 

OpenProj is available for Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Unix, compatible with Microsoft Project files, available in 11 languages, and designed to work with open source office suites including Sun's StarOffice, IBM Symphony, and OpenOffice.org, which boasts 100 million users.

 

This acquisition significantly bolsters Serena Mariner Project & Portfolio Management (PPM (News - Alert)) offering.

 

With the addition of the Projity offerings, Serena Mariner gains both an alternative to Microsoft Project as well as high fidelity bi-directional integration.

 

Serena Mariner was rated by Forrester (News - Alert) as a leader in the The Forrester Wave: Project Portfolio Management Tools, Q4 2007 (December 2007) with top-of-the-line portfolio management software, robust reporting, and a unique implementation road map process.

 

Serena Mariner provides total visibility into project and portfolio status and metrics to ensure the right people are on the right projects at the right time, ultimately delivering more value to the business.

 

OpenProj is an open source desktop project management application available under the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL) for individual project managers to download free of charge.

 

Project-ON-Demand is for small- to medium-sized organizations (SMBs) where several users collaborate on multiple group projects. It builds on the functionality in OpenProj by delivering additional multi-project, collaboration, reporting, and management features for a small subscription fee. Companies around the world are using Project-ON-Demand, including Corning (News - Alert), Sun and Wincor Nixdorf, and many others.

 

Serena is a privately owned company, headquartered in Redwood City, California, with 29 offices in 14 countries and more than 800 employees. Serena provides software on premise and on-demand to over 15,000 customers including 96 of the Fortune 100. Serena enables teams of programmers to become more efficient by standardizing and automating development processes across both mainframe and distributed environments. Serena enables IT business analysts and power users to improve productivity with a new generation of Web 2.0 tools to build Business Mashups. Serena Business Mashups can be used to automate common, everyday processes; they are visual and do not require coding.