[KLUG Members] Microsoft Project replacement

[Adam Williams]

> > >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:

These look pretty interesting -
http://www.ebsuite.com/
http://www.xplanner.org/
http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/

There is also -
http://www.tutos.org/homepage/index.html
http://www.alltasks.net/
http://www.copperproject.com/
http://agenda.samara.net/

Dont' forget that with Open Source if a projects is missing one feature
or behaviour - ask.  They may be willing to add it if your someone
likely to really put their product throught its paces.  You can also
*pay* (I know - shock!) them to add it, or hire someone yourself to add
it and then send the change upstream.  Compared to IIS and MSPS licenses
that may be worth looking into.

Let us know if you try any of these, and what your impressions are.