ms-project equivalent to run under linux/samba

mourik jan heupink

20 May 2005 20 May '05

13:42

dear list. I'm writing here, because I guess some of you could have had the same problem as I'm facing right now. We have a network based on samba/ldap pdc with windows xp clients. Now all of a sudden 'they' (the boss, secretaries) decided they want ms-project. Does anyone here know an open source package that does the same? (roughly the same) Or at least something that does not (as I guess ms project does) require a native windows environment? I know this is only a bit related to suse linux, but i guess there must be many people here who can provide some insight... (maybe reply off list, so not to bother the otehr people too much with this off topic information..?) Thanks very much! mourik jan

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Ben Higginbottom

20 May 20 May

13:58

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On 5/20/05, mourik jan heupink wrote:

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We have a network based on samba/ldap pdc with windows xp clients. Now all of a sudden 'they' (the boss, secretaries) decided they want ms-project.

MSProject is a very good app, except for the obvious drawback of being very expensive and rather too advanced for the casual user, chances are they'll never use it.

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Does anyone here know an open source package that does the same? (roughly the same) Or at least something that does not (as I guess ms project does) require a native windows environment?

GanttProject (http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/) runs off Java and provides similar functionality, the next few months they plan on providing mpp compatability. TaskJuggler ships with Suse, and is an excellent project management tool, but currently I belive that its Unix only. There are also several webbased management tools, and to add some relevance, theres even one (not very good) included with SLOX . Regards, Ben

AD Marshall

14:26

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On Friday 20 May 2005 20:58, Ben Higginbottom wrote:

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On 5/20/05, mourik jan heupink wrote:

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We have a network based on samba/ldap pdc with windows xp clients. Now all of a sudden 'they' (the boss, secretaries) decided they want ms-project.

MSProject is a very good app, except for the obvious drawback of being very expensive and rather too advanced for the casual user, chances are they'll never use it.

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Does anyone here know an open source package that does the same? (roughly the same) Or at least something that does not (as I guess ms project does) require a native windows environment?

GanttProject (http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/) runs off Java and provides similar functionality, the next few months they plan on providing mpp compatability. TaskJuggler ships with Suse, and is an excellent project management tool, but currently I belive that its Unix only.

There are also several webbased management tools, and to add some relevance, theres even one (not very good) included with SLOX .

If the office staff know MS Project, you're likely to meet stiff resistance trying to get them to use anything else. If that's all i knew and i had more pressing work to do, i'd resist too. Still, phprojekt, http://www.phprojekt.com/, is web-based, might be fairly well-evolved by now and it has tonnes of add-on features and a respectable user base. SuSE 9.3 ships with "Imendio Planner 0.12", /opt/gnome/bin/planner, http://www.imendio.com/projects/planner/user-guide/ KDE Menu -> Office -> Project Management More to choose from at: http://www.google.com.vn/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=open-source+project-management+software best, Andi

Kornelis Sietsma

21 May 21 May

08:43

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Ben Higginbottom wrote:

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On 5/20/05, mourik jan heupink wrote:

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We have a network based on samba/ldap pdc with windows xp clients. Now all of a sudden 'they' (the boss, secretaries) decided they want ms-project.

MSProject is a very good app, except for the obvious drawback of being very expensive and rather too advanced for the casual user, chances are they'll never use it.

Some disagreement here - MSProject is an adequate project management tool; unfortunately Microsoft's marketing methods means it successfully killed all the good project management tools (TimeLine anyone?) or moved them into highly specialised hideously expensive niche markets (Artemis). MS Project is full of obscure messy features that may be useful, or may cause you to mis-estimate a project and blow out your estimates by 40% because you dragged-and-dropped the wrong thing.

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Does anyone here know an open source package that does the same? (roughly the same) Or at least something that does not (as I guess ms project does) require a native windows environment?

GanttProject (http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/) runs off Java and provides similar functionality, the next few months they plan on providing mpp compatability. TaskJuggler ships with Suse, and is an excellent project management tool, but currently I belive that its Unix only.

There are also several webbased management tools, and to add some relevance, theres even one (not very good) included with SLOX .

Unfortunately, at least last time I checked, none of the Open Source tools came anywhere near MS Project for features and ease of use. GanttProject has a nice UI, but several severe limitations - last time I checked, at least, it used Days as the only time unit, so you couldn't do scheduling or resourcing on an hourly basis. It also had very limited calendaring - the latest version handles weekends, but I'm not sure that it does anything more complex than that. There are other project management tools that have better features, but crappy UIs - usually they are web based, easy to manage projects, but with no nice gantt-chart based interface for quick *building* of projects, and again they are usually lacking in little details like hourly schedules :) Most of my research on this is a few years old, I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but at the moment there doesn't seem to be a good cross-platform FOSS replacement for MS-Project, crappy as it is. Sigh. I was using better project management tools 15 years ago, for goodness' sake... - Korny -- Kornelis Sietsma e-mail: korny at my surname dot com

Ken Schneider

20 May 20 May

14:32

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On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 15:42 +0200, mourik jan heupink wrote:

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dear list.

I'm writing here, because I guess some of you could have had the same problem as I'm facing right now.

We have a network based on samba/ldap pdc with windows xp clients. Now all of a sudden 'they' (the boss, secretaries) decided they want ms-project.

Does anyone here know an open source package that does the same? (roughly the same) Or at least something that does not (as I guess ms project does) require a native windows environment?

I know this is only a bit related to suse linux, but i guess there must be many people here who can provide some insight...

(maybe reply off list, so not to bother the otehr people too much with this off topic information..?)

Thanks very much! mourik jan

Search for ganttproject on the packman site http://packman.links2linux.org/?query=gantt&action=search GanttProject lets you plan projects using Gantt charts. IIRC this is simular to MS project. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

Richard Bos

18:31

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Op vrijdag 20 mei 2005 15:42, schreef mourik jan heupink:

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I'm writing here, because I guess some of you could have had the same problem as I'm facing right now.

We have a network based on samba/ldap pdc with windows xp clients. Now all of a sudden 'they' (the boss, secretaries) decided they want ms-project.

Does anyone here know an open source package that does the same? (roughly the same) Or at least something that does not (as I guess ms project does) require a native windows environment?

There is planner http://www.imendio.com/projects/planner/ and you might want to use kplato (http://www.koffice.org/kplato). -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

Rob Brandt

21 May 21 May

06:04

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Quoting mourik jan heupink :

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dear list.

I'm writing here, because I guess some of you could have had the same problem as I'm facing right now.

We have a network based on samba/ldap pdc with windows xp clients. Now all of a sudden 'they' (the boss, secretaries) decided they want ms-project.

Does anyone here know an open source package that does the same? (roughly the same) Or at least something that does not (as I guess ms project does) require a native windows environment?

I know this is only a bit related to suse linux, but i guess there must be many people here who can provide some insight...

(maybe reply off list, so not to bother the otehr people too much with this off topic information..?)

Thanks very much! mourik jan

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dotProject is quite good. Web based - php/mysql. http://www.dotproject.net Rob

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AD Marshall
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Ken Schneider
Kornelis Sietsma
mourik jan heupink
Richard Bos
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