Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[Tor Sigurdsson <tosi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not in for discouraging people, but gosh, you sound like a true 
programmer ;-) I'd take your estimate, and multiply it by at least 
3.1415926595 years ;) You see, good project management software is a 
white-collar package, meaning it has to have much more than just basic 
information about the project. There are cost estimates, resource planning, 
resource distribution, heck, I don't even know all the english words that 
fairly describe a project management system....

Personally, I'd LOVE to see a *NIX based project management system worth the 
attention. If you know M$-Project well enough, and think you can mimic it in 
a short period of time, _PLEASE_ do so :-)

But then, my personal believe is that there would be needed some Big 
Corporation (TM) involved as a client/test base, and that won't happen just 
yet. ( soon tho... I hope :-)

-tosi

> It ought to be easy to write Project Management software - I reckon I
> could write the implementation in a few weeks in C++, Java or, at a
> push, C. Is anyone out there confident enough to write a GUI in Qt,
> GTK(+/--) or Java or specify what basic functionality would be needed?
>
> JDL
>
> Chris Herrnberger wrote:
> > On Friday 01 June 2001 21:42, you wrote:
> > > Thanks for the link, I also found a prog for making Gantt charts
> > > http://www.gumbley.demon.co.uk/qtgantt.html#6 but so far nothing that
> > > can really compare to ms project.  I think Ed was right, having project
> > > management software under Linux that can compare to ms project or
> > > exceed it would be a very positive thing. The cheapest I have seen ms
> > > project sell for is $315 and with XP coming out no doubt a newer more
> > > expensive version of ms project will follow.  The more we can show
> > > people how much money they can save by using linux the more they will
> > > be inclined to learn how to use it.
> > >
> > > Diane
> >
> > I couldnt agree with yopu more, beeen waiting three years for an MS
> > PRoejct equivalent. Nothing out there yet.
> > --
> > Best
> >
> > Chris