[KLUG Members] Microsoft Project replacement

[Jim C]

Some thoughts (I have them occasionally):
There might be something commercially available (i.e. that you would 
have to pay for) but would at least run on Linux, possibly reduceing TCO.
One assumes that the output format could be anything that is fairly 
ubiquitious such as HTML?  Could the output file be a PDF or perhaps an 
OpenOffice presentation slide, etc?

>>>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.
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>>I thought there were some rather serious J2EE open source project 
>>management tools.
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>>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.
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>hmm. Well we've been tossing it around and we think what they are looking 
>for/will settle for is:
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>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
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>aka, a project management system :)
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>bonus 6) able to output a ms project file to take with you to show off?
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