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General Information
Evaluation Software
Full Functioned Evaluation Versions of both Project Gateway and Project Observatory are available to qualified organizations
Please contact our office or your local distributor to discuss your needs.
Pricing
Product pricing varies by region as do the service, training and maintenance packages offered by our distributors. Typical North American department level licenses range from 10 to 30 thousand dollars for Project Gateway. A Project Observatory North American License is priced at $25,000 for 250 projects.
Service
Marin Research offers a standard maintenance and support package which provides you with email and telephone support and all product enhancements and upgrades. The annual fee for this service is 15% of the product license fee. Sites are required to designate a support coordinator to provide a central point of contact for update distribution and problem resolution.
Year 2000
Project Gateway and Project Observatory are Year 2000 compliant applications.
Modifications and Derivative Works ?
When you license Project Gateway or Project Observatory, you receive the full design for all of the databases licensed. You may modify these designs as you wish to build the system you need. Making such modifications does not invalidate the warranty on the software or your right to receive support. All of the original software and documentation provided to you is copyrighted. Any modified version must retain the original copyrights and "Help About" pages and is considered to be a derivative work. Such derivative works may only be used under the terms of the effective license agreement. You may not transfer such derivative works to others that have not signed a Project Gateway/Observatory license agreement prior to such transfer. You may not incorporate any element of the copyrighted designs into any other application unless all the users of that application are licensed users of Project Gateway/Observatory.
Project Observatory Specific Information
What size of license do I need?
Project Observatory is licensed by project capacity. The basic license covers the first 250 projects. Add-on options are available to extend the license in 100 project increments .You can expand a Project Observatory license at anytime with full credit given for the original purchase price. Note, there is no limit on the number of users allowed to create or access the data shown in an Observatory.
What server hardware and software do I need?
The basic requirement is for a Lotus Domino 4.62 or later server (NT, Sun, AS/400 etc.) with connectivity to your email environment (the observatory is normally configured as a mail in database). Project Observatory is an agent driven application that will require long agent run times for nightly processing. If you are planning on running larger databases (500+ projects) we suggest you consider a dedicated server.
What client hardware and software do I need?
For full function Notes operation, the Notes client must be Version 4.61 or later. Users with Notes 4.5 clients can use all other features of the application except the Graphic display applets such as Observatory Explorer.
For full function Web operation, the client should have current releases of Internet Explorer, FireFox, Mozilla or Safari. Earlier browsers will not be able to use Observatory Explorer.
To use Observatory Reporter for Microsoft Project, you must have Microsoft Project 98/2000/2002/2003.
Databases, Servers, and Replication ?
You may create as many databases and replicas as you wish on any number of servers at no additional license cost so long as you limit the total number of projects across all of these databases to that which you have licensed.
Connecting other project information sources to the Observatory
Project Abstracts are text files containing markup consistent with the Project Abstract Document Type Description. Project Observatory owners are licensed to use the document type description to connect other data sources into the Observatory System. Marin Research will also license interested third parties to create compatible connectors using this technology. The full definition of the XML Document format is available for download from this site.
Project Gateway Specific Information
What edition of Project Gateway do I need?
The Standard Edition is fully web enabled and includes the Repository Center database design and the Notes Client based tools for project publishing and synchronization. The Repository Suite Edition includes all of the standard edition, the four additional database designs (Metrics, Costing, Archive, and Request), and the ProjectWeb publishing & synchronization components (client and server.) All licenses for 250 or more users provide the Repository Suite Edition. It must be purchased separately for smaller licenses.
When do I need to purchase the Enterprise TimePortal?
The Enterprise TimePortal is needed when you have multiple Project Gateway Repositories AND there are people who need to do timesheet reporting on work in more than one Repository.
What size of license do I need?
You must license everyone who will have reader access to any of the databases or to the agent generated information created therein. In most cases this would include the project managers, project participants, and department executives. Notes administrators are not considered to be users. You can expand a Project Gateway license at anytime with full credit given for the original purchase price. The per user license cost decreases as the license size increases.
What server hardware and software do I need?
What client hardware and software do I need?
For most of your users, the answer will be any Notes R5 or R6 Client and/or any current Web browser including Mozilla, Firefox and Safari. For your project managers, in order to use the Project Gateway Publishing Tools that link to MS Project, Primavera, etc. you must provide a Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 or XP system with a compatible Notes R5 or R6 client. Alternatively, Project Managers can use the ProjectWeb publishing tools from a Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP client with a current model web browser. (The ProjectWeb software components are provided as part of the Repository Suite Edition and require an Intel Based Windows NT/2000/2003/XP Server.)
Databases, Servers, and Replication ?
You may create as many databases and replicas as you wish on any number of servers at no additional license cost so long as you limit the total number of unique, named users across all of these databases to that which you have licensed.
Notes Version 6
Project Gateway Version 6 supports Release 6 and 6.5.
Sales in North America
(Including areas without designated distributors)
Marin Research Inc.
A Lotus Advanced ISV Partner
18124 Wedge Parkway, #1002
Reno, NV 89511
Phone: 775-853-9784 Fax: 775-201-0331
Info@marinres.com
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Japan, Korea, China
Providing the Project Gateway Japanese Edition
Mr. Yasutaka Saegusa
Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd.
Omori Bellport D Bldg,
6-26-3 Minami Oi, Shinagawa-Ku
Tokyo, 140-0013 Japan
Phone: +81-3-3763-1183 Fax: +81-3-3763-5536
Email: y-saegusa@hitachi-system.co.jp
Hitachi Systems Web Site: http://www.hitachi-system.co.jp
Germany, Austria & Switzerland
Chris Eckl
INTECO GmbH
Stethaimer Strasse 32 - 34
D-84034 Landshut, Germany
Phone: (+49) 871-92289-0 Fax: (+49) 871-92289-99
http//www.manageware.de
C.Eckl@manageware.de
Scandinavia
Jan Inge Reite
West Soft Project AS
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P.O. Box 7598 Spjelkavik
N-6022 Aalesund, Norway
Phone: +47 70 17 45 00 Fax: +47 70 17 45 01
Email: wsp@westsoft.no
South Africa
Complete Software Solutions Pty Ltd
George Thomson
First Floor Kohler House
4 Pybus Road
Sandton, 2196
South Africa
Tel: +27 11 884 5570 Fax: +27 11 884 7594
e-mail:georget@css-za.co.za
