[KLUG Members] Microsoft Project replacement
Adam Williams
members@kalamazoolinux.org
25 Jun 2003 07:59:46 -0400
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 06:55, Adam Williams wrote:
> > > >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.
Or maybe this one, although it is more than a project management app -
http://phpaga.sourceforge.net/?item=1