[KLUG Members] Microsoft Project replacement

[John Pesce]

> >trying a modified version of Incyte Project Manager (ipm), which I found on 
> >Freshmeat, but it's very minimal. Longer term, we're actually toying with 
> >writing our own system with PHP.
> 
> I thought there were some rather serious J2EE open source project 
> management tools.
> 
> I'm not familiar with M$-Project server, what features are you looking 
> for?  Do you need integral workflow management services?  There are some 
> really good workflow managers available.

hmm. Well we've been tossing it around and we think what they are looking 
for/will settle for is:

1) Need to able to produce Ghant charts
2) Need to be able to create/assign/modify tasks
3) Need for workers to login to a central server and log time to tasks, 
add notes, percent complete,etc.
4) Need for a manager to admin a project, make adjustments to schedule, 
etc.
5) Need to restrict access/visability to projects/tasks you are part of

aka, a project management system :)

bonus 6) able to output a ms project file to take with you to show off?