Re: Spinoff: Using Linux for work?

[David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Kelly et al.:

Visio replacements are coming along, but there is a considerable way
to go for any of them to become as polished. Perhaps the most common
is Dia: http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/

If you look at the Links page, there is a Win32 port available, as
well as a number of utilities that do interesting things with Dia.
Another UML diagrammer is ArgoUML.

When it comes to project management--it happens I have been doing a
bit of a survey of the various tools I have found for that purpose in
the open source (and *cheap*) world...here is a dump of my present
bookmark file. I have not yet begun a detailed analysis of any of
these tools--that will accelerate rapidly if I get an offer I am
anticipating. Otherwise, it'll take a while!

Open Source Project Management Tools in Java:
http://java-source.net/open-source/project-management
Open Workbench: http://www.openworkbench.org/
Projectory: http://projectory.sourceforge.net/
PHProjekt: http://www.phprojekt.com/
XPlanner: http://www.xplanner.org/
Achievo: http://www.achievo.org/product/index
Austin: Project Management in XML: http://austin.sourceforge.net/
dotProject: http://www.dotproject.net/
Double Choco Latte: http://dcl.sourceforge.net/
FUTURe: http://www.wolfkeeper.uklinux.net/FUTURe/
Imendio Planner: http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Planner
The Project Management Interface: http://majordojo.com/pmi/
]project-open[    http://www.project-open.com/
proManager: http://promanager.bin.org/
GanttPV:  http://www.pureviolet.net/ganttpv/
TaskJuggler: http://www.taskjuggler.org/
Track+: http://www.trackplus.de/     (free for up to 10 users)
TUTOS: http://www.tutos.org/homepage/about.html
WebCollab: http://webcollab.sourceforge.net/
WR Time Tracker: http://products.wrconsulting.com/wrtimetracker/en/index.php
Basecamp: http://www.basecamphq.com/ (free for 1 project; hosted
service up to $99 per month for 100 projects managed).
Puppy: http://puppy.tigris.org/

It appears that whomever your friend was may have had some rather
detailed requirements; among these tools are many that will do all
that most people want to accomplish in a PM tool. Please let me know
if you try any of them and your results!

David


On 9/16/05, Kelley Greenman <writinglists -at- inkworkswell -dot- com> wrote:

> This is a terrific idea Bruce. Two pieces of software I'm interested in,
> but haven't even had time to find out if they exist, are replacements for
> Visio and Microsoft Project. As to the latter, a friend (a dedicated Open
> Source user, booster, and security sys admin) once told me that he'd never
> been able to find anything that could replace Project. Perhaps that's
> changed in the two years since he told me that?

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