1 Million People Choose Serena Software OpenProj(TM) Over Microsoft(R) Project

More than 1 million people have downloaded Serena Software's free, open source project management software, OpenProj, making it the second most popular project management product next to Microsoft Project. As the global recession forces workers to do more with less, OpenProj is fast becoming an attractive alternative to Microsoft Office Project Professional, which costs approximately $1,000 per user. In fact, more than 400,000 people have downloaded OpenProj in the last three months, and Serena currently sees 3,000 to 5,000 new downloads per day.

Available in 142 countries and 16 languages, OpenProj is widely adopted in the United States , which accounts for approximately 59 percent of all downloads. The Asia-Pacific region represents 10 percent of all downloads, and Europe about 12 percent. Serena projects that European uptake on OpenProj will continue given the emphasis European governments and IT departments place on the use of open source software. One reason for the widespread adoption of OpenProj is that it takes only minutes to download from the Web, and users can then immediately access all of their existing Microsoft Project files and continue working. The migration is seamless and immediate.