Looking for an open/free Projects like App

[Joseph Sinclair]

There probably aren't any F/LOSS applications that can read MS Project files, not least because
the file format is, like nearly all MS formats, completely undocumented, proprietary,
and extremely convoluted (making reverse engineering a major project).

MS Project is one of the "applications" that MS has not, and probably never will,
expended any effort whatsoever to make interoperable.  Once you create data in
Project you can never get it out again except in Project itself.  Isn't lock-in
wonderful 8[

The best you can do is have people use alternatives for all projects going forward,
unfortunately.  Even going forward, I have yet to find a really good basic project
management application available as F/LOSS.  Most of the options that are available
are server-based and require quite a bit of customization to be really usable.

That said, here are some F/LOSS options currently available (and currently active):
http://www.achievo.org/
http://www.project-open.org/
http://faces.homeip.net/
http://www.dotproject.net/

==Joseph++

Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I am getting more and more request from people who want to dable in MS
> Projects, and I heard thier was an open/free Projects app. Any one know
> of any thing?
> Preferably it would use MS Projects files.  Or use files that MS
> Projects could use.  Also, it would be nice if it was Windows an Linux
> compatable, so I can get people away from MS projects and the horific
> expenses that it is.