Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> 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. 
>>     
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Another open-source project management tool that I played around with a
little is Task Juggler (http://taskjuggler.org). It kind of has its own
programming language to input in your schedule and constraints (this may
be more powerful than the simple method that Project uses). It has a GUI
as well as being fully-functional from a command line.


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