Re: [SLUG] replacement for MS Project

From: William Coulter (wrcoulter33@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 30 2009 - 16:16:37 EDT


Thanks, I thought that I would ask.
William

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Christian Brink
<cbrink@christianbrink.com>wrote:

> William Coulter wrote:
> > Christian,
> > Thanks for the personal info. I may do the same thing. Have you
> > tried using Project in Wine?
> Yes, I tried :) It didn't work too well. But using VirtualBox (on a
> machine with dual core and a decent amount of RAM) has made it fairly
> seamless.
>
>
>
> >
> > William
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Christian Brink
> > <cbrink@christianbrink.com <mailto:cbrink@christianbrink.com>> wrote:
> >
> > William Coulter wrote:
> > > A friend asked me the other day if there was something that was
> open
> > > source that would replace MS Projects. I have no idea what MS
> > > Projects is or what it does.
> > >
> >
> > I've done a lot of research on this and used various products, and
> > right
> > now I run M$ Project in VirtualBox.
> >
> > The main issues are resource leveling, earned value analysis and
> other
> > nice tools.
> >
> > The products I tested/used were. Gnome Tracker( formally MR Project
> ),
> > TaskJuggler, KPlato, and OpenProj.
> >
> > The closest in functionality is TaskJuggler. It does resource
> > leveling.
> > It is text based entry which I suppose would turn people off. I
> > used it
> > for 6 months before going back to M$ Project. I stopped using it
> > mainly
> > because it is missing the ability to do a couple standard tracking
> > reports. Don't get me wrong it's good, it does a lot, and it's
> > flexible.
> > But it does not have a few key features that, if you are used to M$
> > Proj, I would think you would find it lacking.
> >
> > As for OpenProj(community) and Gnome Tracker they don't have resource
> > leveling and that is basically a no-go for any project manager.
> >
> > The most recent beta of KPlato has resource leveling but overall
> > it is a
> > little buggy. It does not have some features that M$ Proj has, and it
> > does have some usability issues but it does have a workable GUI.
> >
> >
> >
> > > William
> > >
> > > --
> > > Every bill here on out should have the approximate number of jobs
> it
> > > is going to create and then every year or two have an audit of the
> > > actual number of jobs created.
> > >
> > > Build here, build now...Buy American made.
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Christian Brink
> > cbrink@christianbrink.com <mailto:cbrink@christianbrink.com>
> > http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=133383
> >
> >
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> > --
> > Every bill here on out should have the approximate number of jobs it
> > is going to create and then every year or two have an audit of the
> > actual number of jobs created.
> >
> > Build here, build now...Buy American made.
> >
>
>
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> Christian Brink
> cbrink@christianbrink.com
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Every bill here on out should have the approximate number of jobs it is
going to create and then every year or two have an audit of the actual
number of jobs created.

Build here, build now...Buy American made.

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