From: "Martin, Craig" <CMartin@miller.shandwick.com>
To: "'corbet@eklektix.com'" <corbet@eklektix.com>
Subject: Open Source Announcement
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 14:22:25 -0600

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Cambridge Interactive Offers Unlimited Power Steering for the Open Source
Software Community 
Web Service brings focus and collaboration to open source projects
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 22, 1999 - Web-based applications provider
Cambridge Interactive today announced it is offering unlimited use of its
Power Steering application to open source development projects.  Developers
can sign up online at www.psteering.com. 

"We're offering the open source software community a way to build more
effective teams and drive projects forward," said Andy Singleton, CEO and
CTO, Cambridge Interactive.  "Power Steering is designed to take the burden
of project management off of the developers' shoulders so they can focus on
doing what they do best - developing great code." 

Power Steering allows teams of any size to collaborate in real-time and to
view a project task menu listing everything from an overview to task detail.
Power Steering can keep a widely scattered team focused on the most
important goals and deliverables. One example of an open source software
project currently driven with the help of Power Steering is Project JEDI
("Joint Endeavor of Delphi Innovators"), an international community of
developers working together on open source Delphi projects. "Since we are
all spread around the world across different time zones, it is very hard to
keep the group focused on the hierarchy of tasks with a good overview of the
overarching goals," said Michael Beck, JEDI project co-organizer.  "Power
Steering makes this a breeze."

Another critical success factor for open source software projects is the
infrastructure for communicating and exchanging ideas.  Power Steering takes
developer collaboration way beyond what's possible with basic list-serve
communication.  "Power Steering's intuitive user interface allows developers
to easily navigate between related projects, while its project integration
capability far exceeds tools available to commercial software publishing
houses," said Mark F. Rodriguez, chief technology officer, Sovereign
Software, Inc. "Now our independent, disparate developers have web access to
all our project's resources enabling us to deliver commercial-quality,
open-source software for all mobile users to enjoy."
 
According to Singleton, "The open source community is at the forefront of
distributed management and distributed development.  Open source projects
teach us things that we can apply to our product, our own management and our
commercial customers.  We will continue to expand our open source
participation."  Future versions of Power Steering will contain features
such as integrated source code management which are tailored to the needs of
open source and distributed development projects.

More About Power Steering
Power Steering is a Web-based application that organizes people and projects
to get results in Internet time. It combines collaboration, recruiting,
real-time notification, project management and management reporting in one
easy-to-use, web-based tool.  Power Steering has been used to manage and
execute merger integration, product launches and E-commerce transformations.
Power Steering helps organizations to: 
*	Define and communicate clear goals. 
*	Build effective working groups around those goals.
*	Manage progress towards goals. 




For more information about Power Steering, please visit:  www.psteering.com.
For more information about Jedi project, please visit: www.delphi-jedi.org.

Company Background 
Cambridge Interactive helps organizations apply the power of the Internet to
the process of management.  Founded in 1994, the company now offers a
complete package of online services, integration, human facilitation, and
management consulting that gets people working together to deliver results
in Internet time.  For more information, visit Cambridge Interactive on the
Web: http://www.cinteractive.com.
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For further editorial information, contact:

Cambridge Interactive	Florent Latour	617-520-2100
Florent@cinteractive.com
Miller/Shandwick Technologies	Langley Allbritton	617-351-4155
Lallbritton@miller.shandwick.com