ProjectLibre

Project Libre is a free project management software.

License & revenue model

Project Libre is released under the Common Public Attribution License. The Free Software Foundation recognizes this as a free software license, but it is not GPL - compatible and has only a limited copyleft. The Open Source Initiative recognizes them as an open- source license.

Currently downloading Project Libre is free. The developers plan as soon as the server version of Project Libre is completed, Project Libre and / or Project Server Libre alternative to free download offer as paid software as a service, within the meaning of a hosted service on their servers.

Origin

The original developer of OpenProj had sold its rights to OpenProj as part of a corporate takeover of the company Serena. Since then OpenProj has not been developed any further.

After about four years, the original developers decided to develop a OpenProj supplementary server, similar to the server-client ratio of Microsoft Project Server Microsoft Project. In the course of development, however they, recognized that the fact that OpenProj has not been updated during the last four years, was problematic for their goal. Thus they had to make and first develop an updated version of OpenProj the development of the server.

This version was released as a fork named Project Libre in August 2012 as an independent project. The additional server is currently still in development and Project Server Libre is hot.

Description and Features

Project Libre is an application written in Java and therefore platform independent run as desktop application or in an Internet browser. It is a stand-alone application. From the developers but also a server version called Project Libre server is announced to which is Project Libre can connect in terms of a client is. Project Libre uses the network analysis.

The current version includes the following features:

  • Earned value
  • Gantt charts
  • PERT charts
  • Resource breakdown structures
  • Task usage reports
  • Work breakdown structures
  • Import and export of Microsoft Project 2010 files
  • PDF export (without restrictions )
  • A new Ribbon user interface

Relationship with Microsoft Project

Project Libre is marketed by the developers as " Microsoft Project substitute". This relates in part to the visual and functional imitation of Microsoft Project and on the other to the possibility of Microsoft Project to open and write 2010 files. The latter may occur depending on the complexity of the files may be incompatibilities.

Achievements & Awards

  • Project Libre was elected in October 2012 by the SourceForge community for open-source project of the month.
  • Project Libre received on 17 September 2013 Infoworld.com -2013 " Bossie " Award
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