Southpaw Technology, a developer of production asset management (PAM) technology for content creators, has created an open source version of its production asset management system Tactic Team (www.southpawtech.com/solutions), for Mac users.

Now individuals and small Teams working on Macs and producing 2D/3D files, visual effects, video and more can download Tactic Team for free and start using it instantly to manage files, tasks, projects and workflows. Every feature available on the most recent Windows version of Tactic Team (3.9) is now also supported on iOS. Since Tactic Team is open source, individuals and Teams can download the software and start using it for free.

Available to companies under the Eclipse Public License, Tactic is a web-based production asset management system that deals with the problms of complex digital content creation. By combining digital asset management with project and workflow management, Tactic keeps files secure, Teams on track and projects on schedule as more digital content is created, according to the folks at Southpaw.