Yeah, I've been looking at smaller solutions to Project mainly because some people like it and other people dont. Some people find the user interface comfortable and some people get freaked. Also, it works great to track people tasks in terms of cost, but not so great tracking deliverable and asset costs (as far as I can see - welcome comments from whomever is using it for that)
So I'm trying to find something which will migrate data back and forth from/into project, with a resource pool, but with a deliverable/asset/third party cost element: ie small media project.
Excel is great. I love Excel, but again no resource pooling capability.
Curious why do you say other solutions are expensive? What have you found?
These are some of the stuff I found, just starting to look
Primavera
Enact
TurboProject
Milestone Project Companion
GroupWise
eGroupWare
Staffware
Other?