[KLUG Members] Microsoft Project replacement

[John Pesce]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Jim C wrote:

> 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?

Umm. Sure, I don't see why not. The main sticker with management is they 
want workers to have to login to a central server to update thier progress 
and get new tasks. The other biggy is information hiding, i.e. only see 
what you need to, so only project managers can modify the project and its 
schedule.


> >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?