Project Professional 2003 with Project Server 2007?

That might be a question you have already heard a couple of times if you have talked to people working with Project Professional and/or Project Server.

Project Professional 2003 will not integrate with Project Server 2007 for technical reasons. As you may know Project Professional 2003 has connected to the Project Server 2003 database through ODBC. This was a pain for a great number of customers, especially with WAN scenarios.
For the 2007 products ODBC has been replaced (although you could still connect to other databases using ODBC). Instead, the Project Professional 2007 client will connect to the Project Server 2007 database through HTTP. The publishing process has also been improved thanks to the Active Cache the Project Professional 2007 client is now working with.

Even though Project Professional 2007 looks a lot like its predecessor, you will find many new features that your project managers will enjoy a lot. There's change highlighting, multiple un-do and task drivers just to name a few. Even if it would be possible technically to connect to Project Server 2007 through Project Pro 2003, I would recommend you to upgrade to the 2007 client.

Feel free to post any comments regarding questions.