Is P3e really the new P3?

If you visit the Primavera web site you will see no mention of P3. I do not believe it is possible to purchase P3 although Primavera will continue to support existing users.

The President of Primavera has publicly stated that they will sell P3 for as long as their customers want to buy it. He also pledged to support P3 at least until 2010. The way I hear it, P3 sales continue very strongly mainly because it meets the needs of construction without a lot of IT bells and whistles added on.

Mmmm,

I have worked at places that still use MSP 2002.

How long will the majority migration to P3e take?

If I plan on working abroad in the future, will there be many P3e planning jobs to choose from?

Reply to the original question:
P3e and P3 are different packages originally developed by different teams in different companies.

As far as I know, P3e was not developped by an other company than Primavera; P3e (know P5) was developped a) to meet the needs of company wide project management (versus "personal" project management as P3 or MS Project is able to do it) with a shared database, roles, electronic timesheets, ... b) because the Betrieve database on which P3 relies did not exist anymore.
P3 and P3e are as different in purpose and user interface as MS Project and Project Web Access, Sciforma PS8 and PSnext, PowerProject and TeamPlan, or a small MS Access and a large Oracle database.
100% true that P3 is much closer to construction companies needs and requirements than P3e.
For (obscure?) marketing reasons, Primavera Corp. has been selling P4 (and P5?) under many different brand names as Construction, Industry, IT, Counselling, aso; same product, different project templates, (different price models?).
Have a good day, wherever you are
Alexandre

Alexandre,
original name of P3e was Eagle Ray and this package was originally presented (not by Primavera) at PMI’98 in Long Beach, California.
Regards,
Vladimir

Vlad,

The original question was do you think P3e will replace P3.

Whether they were originaly made by different people is irrelevant, i want to know if you think P3e will replace P3 as the benchmark standard planning tool in the construction industry?

If the consenus is that it won’t then it leads to me needing to train on P3 in order to progress to working overseas. But will this be the case in say, 3 years?

Cheers

Oliver,
I don’t think that P3 will last long. Last version of this software was published in 1993. It was not improved since then and becomes more and more outdated.
I think that P3 users will migrate to other software very soon. P3e is one of potential choices, in different countries the situation is different but it is presented everywhere competing with local favorits like Asta products in GB and Spider Project in Russia.
Regards,
Vladimir

My copy of P3, Version 3.1 Service Pack 3 is copyright 2004. I believe that P3 Version 3 came out in 2003. Back in 1993, I think that P3 was still a DOS-based software (before the Windows versions.)

Hello all,
Primavera P3 Version 1 was released in 1996, Version 3.0 in 1999; prior to 1996, P3 was only a MS-DOS based application; since 1999, P3 3.1 and 3.3 were released, I don’t know when exactly, and a few / a lot of patches as well.
I agree that P3 is not dead at all; Primavera Corp tried to kill it, but how to kill something 10 billions people on Earth want to use every day?
Alexandre
I am joking, only a half a million?

HELLO ALL

IS ANY BODY CAN HELP TO ME FIND ANY MANUAL (USEFUL MANUAL)
FOR p3E

Frashid,

In P3e CD, thers is a technical manual from Primavera itself. For me, thats the best book for reference.

Can download from primavera website. (FTP)

Cheers,

Raviraj A Bhedase