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Soli said:

Are debit cards not common in Germany (or other countries)? I assumed that was a universal payment system these days.

The most common debit card system (EC/girocard) is only a point of sale system, no online use.

Agree with the review, but calling MS Project the standard in huge projects is patently wrong. It actually plays no role in large projects at all, because it is shit (or, to be more precise: it turned into same over the last decade, it used to be quite decent in its early days). Pretty much every single large scale project I was involved in over the last 20 years (the biggest one being a $5 billion one) were managed using Primavera. It is so far above the rest, it is not even debatable.

Still, we are lucky on the OS X platform, since there are quite a few great solutions (more than under Windows). OmniPlan, Merlin, FTS... they all run circles around MS Project and are actually usable, which MS Project isn't. I am going back and forth between Merlin and OmniPlan in smaller projects myself and can't really decide between the two. I prefer a lot about Merlin (the server especially, which is useful) as it covers more ground (project documents, deeper resource and cost management), but it totally lacks decent base-lining, a very important area where OmniPlan absolutely shines.