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Reported by Manfred Rieck in Wiesbaden

German Project management consultants ProjectWizards have announced that their project management application Merlin has won Macworld’s 2007 Editor’s Choice award (Third-Party Software of the Year category) and a Golden Cube award from IT Enquirer (Software category).

“We've achieved this together,” says ProjectWizards’ CEO Frank Blome, “and I am really happy to see others finally recognize the superior position of Merlin.”

MacWorld’s 23rd annual Editor’s Choice awards (“the Eddies”) recognized the best Mac products to hit the marketplace between November 1, 2006 and November 1, 2007. Of the 18 winning software applications, Merlin is the only project management software. Merlin also received a 2007 IT Enquirer’s Award of Excellence (“The Golden Cube”) in the Business Applications category.

ProjectWizards is a Germany-based company that has combined its project consulting experience and Macintosh development expertise to create Merlin 2.5, professional project management software designed exclusively for the Macintosh operating system. For more information or a free demonstration version of Merlin, visit www.projectwizards.net.

Manfred Rieck International Correspondent Mr. Manfred Rieck, PMP, is an International Correspondent for PMForum.org in Frankfurt, Germany. Mr. Rieck is also European Deployment Leader in IBM’s Project Management Center of Excellence (PM/CoE) based in Frankfurt. Manfred has a Diplom-Informatik degree from University Bonn, Germany and is currently enrolled in an MBA program through Henley Management College in the UK. He is also a member of the 2007 PMI® Leadership Institute Master Class. Manfred is active in PMI’s Frankfurt Chapter and is committed to advancing the PM profession in Germany and throughout Europe. Additional information about Mr. Rieck can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5. Manfred Rieck can be contacted at Manfred.Rieck@de.ibm.com