Project 2003 Standard vs. Enterprise

[Mike]

I work for a small company that is looking to purchase the
new Project 2003 and am looking for suggestions that will
meet our needs.

We have 5 people as of now that will use Project, and for
now do not need to share projects, but in the future may.
For now Standard would seem to fit the bill, but for
future sharing of projects Enterprise will be needed and I
am leaning toward purchasing that. The problem that I see
is that the new version of Project Enterprise has quite a
bit of dependant software in order to run and function
completely. We do not run SQL Server, are running on
Windows 2000 Server, and it appears in the write-up to not
have the web accessibility unless running Server 2003. Is
this correct? Will installing the Enterprise version
allow the 5 stations to at least act as individual
stations running Standard until we decide to invest in SQL
Server 2000? Any suggestions from those here in the know?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Rob Schneider]

I work for a small company that is looking to purchase the
new Project 2003 and am looking for suggestions that will
meet our needs.

We have 5 people as of now that will use Project, and for
now do not need to share projects, but in the future may.
For now Standard would seem to fit the bill, but for
future sharing of projects Enterprise will be needed and I
am leaning toward purchasing that. The problem that I see
is that the new version of Project Enterprise has quite a
bit of dependant software in order to run and function
completely. We do not run SQL Server, are running on
Windows 2000 Server, and it appears in the write-up to not
have the web accessibility unless running Server 2003. Is
this correct? Will installing the Enterprise version
allow the 5 stations to at least act as individual
stations running Standard until we decide to invest in SQL
Server 2000? Any suggestions from those here in the know?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Yes, Project's web accessibility comes with Project Server 2003 (but you
can always create HTML pages of projects with Standard and Professional,
and there is nothing precluding you making your own web pages and using
other collaborative tools).

Sounds to me that what you want now is Project Standard. In USA Amazon
wants $520 each, so that's 5x520=$2600 total. (Less expensive if upgrade
current versions of Project).

Your question really is "project standard vs. professional".

When you upgrade to Project Server (and all that goes with that), you'll
surely want to upgrade those copies to Project Professional to enable
maintenance of existing knowledge/tools *and* connect to Project Server.
However, I don't think there is an upgrade path for Standard to
Professional, based on
http://www.microsoft.com/office/project/howtobuy/epmpricing.mspx.

So, if were you, if there was *any* chance in future you wanted to move
to Project Server 2003 (and all that goes with it), I would buy 5
copies of Microsoft Project Pro now. Amazon wants 5x855=$4275.

 

[Dennis Scherrer]

Hallo,

my company offers the Project Server to rent (ASP). You
bye your Project Professional licences and you can use one
absolute sperate partition on our project server. you get
own web-access-site, own database, etc.

interessting? you can rent project professional too.

Dennis Scherrer
BLUESITE/germany