OpenProj: Difference between revisions

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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}}

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

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

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== 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=http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=775275 |title=OpenProj 1.0 Released |accessdate=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 |accessdate=2009-01-19 |date=2009-01-19 |publisher=[[Serena Software]] |url-status=unfit |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20101218150326/http://www.serena.com/company/news/pr/spr_09232008.html |archive-date=2010-12-18}}</ref>

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== 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 = http://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week&offset=50

|title = Most Active Projects - Last Week

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|accessdate = 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.