On Friday 20 May 2005 20:58, Ben Higginbottom wrote:
On 5/20/05, mourik jan heupink <heupink@intech.unu.edu> wrote:
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.
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