[lbo-talk] Open source project management software?

joseph noonan joseph at noonan.ws
Wed Jan 9 15:05:46 PST 2008


On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Matt wrote:


> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 04:30:29PM -0600, Chuck wrote:
>> This may be one of the odder questions I've ever asked this list, but
>> I'm hoping that some of you can help me out.
>>
>> I'm looking for open source planning and project management software
>> that runs on Windows. I'm looking for something that will enable me to
>> track several projects and has those timeline charts (Gannt charts?).
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Suggestions for similar software for Linux are also appreciated, since
>> I'll be moving my computing to that platform this year.
>
> I've tried Open Workbench, and it is a far cry from MS Project, which
> is probably one of the better pieces of software to come out of
> Redmond. Workbench is usable but it lacks a lot of the sophisticated
> features and the interface is painful.

This came up on another list recently and there somewhere exists a website that compares a bunch of these things, but I can't find the e-mail right now and don't have time to google. Here are a some that people mentioned (I have not experience with any of them):

<http://www.dotproject.org/>

<(http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Planner>

<http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/>

-j



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