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openProj - MSProject compatible open source

Article Tags: Open, Source, Project, Management, MS Project, Microsoft, replacement

OpenProj is a Microsoft Project compatible organisation tool. It is able to read and save files in the MS Project format but is available for free. It is now also included with Star Office in Europe and available for Linus, Unix, Mac or Windows. So far I only had a brief glimpse at it, but it could correctly open quite complex diagrams and save them correctly. So far it worked for me but I've heard from colleagues that they had some problems of it when distributing to MS Project users (not able to open).

It includes the following features:

- Earned Value costing
- Gantt chart
- PERT graph
- Resource Breakdown Structure chart
- Task usage reports
- Work Breakdown Structure chart