AT-Project - collaboration [1] from Atreides Technologies shall become a collaborative software whose features should enable you to improve productivity traceability and reliability in your project with sharing information, planning activities, track development bugs, record time spent on tasks, help you to fill in your time sheet, and many features more.
What I found after some hours of their website-outage was sort of a "Wollmilchsau" (=all inclusive wonder-magic all-you can-eat) program that shall be implemented over the next 6-8 months according to the roadmap [2] ...
If you checkout the screenshots [3] currently available you see that a lot of the feature-list [4] (as they explained) is not yet available - not even as a GUI fake... that makes this tool a very nice dream with the realistic body of an eclipse-integrated defect/task-management tool (usermanagement and task-handling is already there...)
Of course an overall collaboration feature "for distributed manipulation of shared objects" sounds nice - they want to implement a JMS server based communication ... as well a Laptop functionality (offline mode) and especially the integrated Requirements management would work out great ... conjunctive...
Today there is not even a little readme explaining the installation, neither for configuration or little "hello-world"-sample... I am afraid, but I am not willing to tweak around with such incomplete releases... I don't expect Wizards or something, but a 10-lines how-to is a minimum in my opinion - don't you agree?
When I look at the milestone plan I must agree that this project is not really of interest for the the next 3-4 months for me... and really essential features like Requirements Management shall be implemented even later... - well let's say we have it next summer...
Don' t get me wrong, I find the approach to have many project-management tools integrated nice, even if I doubt the maturity of the release - even in next summer - compared to - hum - hand-tailored Excels, full-fledged commercial software, well anything - just the set of various tools (and may they be dumb) we work with today... but they work somehow... and this tool doesn't (yet)... good luck french guys at Atreides - you attack a very interesting market competing with Rational, IBM, MS and even more specialized companies.
Oh - and maybe you take a look at CodeBeamer [5] that should provide a little bit more for a little bit more money - I just discovered their homepage... at least they have some nice screenshots and probably their needed collaboration server ready - I don't think the implementation and testing took only 3 months!