Clarizen lures Microsoft customers

Clarizen, like other small vendors in the on-demand project-management software space, is trying to lure Microsoft Project customers, says PC World.

Starting this week, Clarizen is dangling a potentially tempting new carrot - big discounts for Project customers who switch.

Users can import Microsoft Project data into Clarizen. The software lets them survey their project's progress, plan budgets and create reports. It also incorporates collaborative features such as "Wiki-like" notes and discussion boards.

PHP is the latest language getting the NetBeans treatment, with a PHP version of Sun Microsystems' open source environment, states The Register.

Built on the same generic scripting framework that Sun used for Ruby, the NetBeans PHP bundle includes project management tools with re-factoring and code completion to ease deployment.

Sun hopes these features will, finally, wean users off Emacs and Bill Joy's vi.

Maria Odea Ching, 25, has become the first Filipino VP and project management committee chairperson of the Apache Archiva Project of the foundation, a non-profit organisation that supports numerous open source projects around the world, reports Inquirer.

In an interview, Ching said she is also one of two women members of the Apache Archiva Project management committee, which is composed of 15 members.

The Apache Archiva Project is a top-level open source project that provides global software developers with a repository for components needed to build software applications.