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{{Short description|Open-source project management software}}

{{About-distinguish2|OpenProj, the inactive ancestor of ProjectLibre, coded in Java|[[OpenProject]], an active fork of ChiliProject, coded in Ruby-on-rails}}

{{Infobox software

| name = OpenProj (replaced by ProjectLibre)

| logo =

| screenshot = GanttExample.png

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| developer = Projity

| released = August 6, 2007

| latest release version = OpenProj 1.43

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2008|08|11|df=no}}

| latest preview version = 1.4

| latest preview date = {{Start date and age|2008|10|02|df=no}}

| discontinued = yes

| replaced_by = [[ProjectLibre]]

| repo = {{URL|https://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/}}

| programming language = [[Java (programming language)|Java]]

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| genre = [[Project management software]]

| license = [[Common Public Attribution License]]

| website = httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20081217014714/http://openproj.org/ (archived 2008)

}}

'''OpenProj''' was an [[open-source software|open-source]] [[project management software]] application.

It has not been updated since 20182008 and is not supported. Serena Software asked users to use [[ProjectLibre]] instead.

== History and status ==

Marc O'Brien, Howard Katz, and Laurent Chretienneau developed OpenProj at Projity in 2007. It moved out of beta with Version 1.0 on January 10, 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=775275 |title=OpenProj 1.0 Released |accessdateaccess-date=2008-01-17 |date=2008-01-16 |publisher=[[SourceForge.net]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115030121/http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=775275 |archive-date=2009-01-15}}</ref>

In late 2008, Projity was acquired by [[Silver Lake Partners]] (the private equity firm) via its subsidiary at that time, [[Serena Software]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.serena.com/company/news/pr/spr_09232008.html |title=Serena Software Acquires Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Project |accessdateaccess-date=2009-01-19 |date=2009-01-19 |publisher=[[Serena Software]] |url-status=unfit |archive-url=httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20101218150326/http://www.serena.com/company/news/pr/spr_09232008.html |archive-date=2010-12-18}}</ref>

In November 2008, support and development of OpenProj appeared suspended.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/p/openproj/discussion/708855/thread/03c9f822/|title=OpenProj - Project Management / Discussion / Open Discussion: Active development still going on...?}}</ref> There were a few later commits to the [[Concurrent Versions System|CVS]] with regressions, but no improvements. It is no longer compatible with Microsoft Project.

Serena/Projity also developed a [[software as a Service]] (SaaS) project software, Projects On Demand. (Projects On Demand service ended on June 11, 2011.)

In 2012, the founders of OpenProj announced that they had forked the OpenProj [[codebase]] and started a different implementation.

Serena announced and posted online to avoid downloading OpenProj and instead download [[ProjectLibre]].

The initial release of ProjectLibre occurred in August 2012. ProjectLibre has been completely rewritten and thus technically ceased to be a fork.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hibbets|first=Jason|title=ProjectLibre edges in on Microsoft Project dominance|url=https://opensource.com/business/13/5/projectlibre-microsoft-project|publisher=[[opensource.com]]|accessdateaccess-date=4 June 2013}}</ref>

== Features ==

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* [[Resource breakdown structure]] (RBS) charts

* Task usage reports

* [[Work breakdown structure]] (WBS) charts<ref name=IW200710>{{cite web |last=Heck |first=Mike |title=Preview: OpenProj brings free, robust project management to the desktop |work=[[InfoWorld]] |publisher=[[International Data Group]] |date=2007-10-09 |url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/2637828/preview--openproj-brings-free--robust-project-management-to-the-desktop.html |accessdateaccess-date=2007-11-08}}</ref>

== Popularity ==

It has been downloaded over 4,000,000 times in over 142 countries<ref>https://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/files/stats/map?dates=2007-06-23%20to%202020-10-01</ref>. Three months after the beta version release, on SourceForge an average of 60,000 copies a month were downloaded.<ref>[https://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/files/stats/timeline?dates=2007-06-23%20to%202099-12-31 OpenProj: Download Statistics: All Files], SourceForge</ref> With a SourceForge activity percentile of 99.964, at number 15 it was listed just ahead of the popular messaging application [[Pidgin (software)|Pidgin]].<ref>{{cite web

|url = httphttps://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week&offset=50

|title = Most Active Projects - Last Week

|accessdateaccess-date = 2007-11-09

|date = 2007-11-09

|publisher = [[SourceForge.net]]

}}</ref> In May 2008 the total number of downloads on SourceForge reached 500,000.<ref>{{cite web

|url = httphttps://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=773269

|title = OpenProj hits 500,000 download milestone

|accessdateaccess-date = 2008-01-17

|date = 2008-01-11

|publisher = [[SourceForge.net]]

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090115082722/http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=773269

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== Bugs ==

OpenProj has not been supported for over 10 years. Serena software previously issued a warning and asked users to use ProjectLibre. As of version 1.4, bugs in the software generally only manifest for users who are attempting more advanced features. For example, tasks may mysteriously start at a certain time (they behave as if they have a 'Start no earlier than' constraint even though none exists, and the project start date is not a constraint), links show gaps, fixed cost for summary tasks neither sums nor is editable, etc. Sometimes these errors are solved by restarting the software, but others are persistent.

Compared to Microsoft Project, which it closely emulates, OpenProj has a similar user interface (UI), and a similar approach to construction of a project plan: create an indented task list or work breakdown structure (WBS), set durations, create links (either by (a) mouse drag, (b) selection and then button-down, or (c) manually type in the "predecessor" column), assign resources. The columns (fields) are the same as for Microsoft Project. Users of either software should be broadly comfortable using the other. Costs are the same: labour, hourly rate, material usage, and fixed costs: these are all provided.

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=== ProjectLibre ===

The original founders of OpenProj started to develop a complementary serverCloud forversion OpenProjcalled ProjectLibre in 2012, comparable to [[Microsoft Project Server]] for Microsoft Project. During development they realized, that the fact that OpenProj had not been updated anymore by Serena Software for 12 years would become problematic to their goal, so they needed to firstrewrite developthe a significantly updated version of OpenProjprogram.

==See also==