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Development has been ceased and the successor project is [[ProjectLibre]] You can download ProjectLibre [http://www.projectlibre.org] '''OpenProj''' was an [[open source]] [[project management software]] application. It has not been updated since 2008 and the [[ProjectLibre]] application is seen as it's successor. On their website, the current OpenProj owner, Serena Software, recommend downloading ProjectLibre. Sourceforge has issued a note that '''[[ProjectLibre]]''' has superseded OpenProj and is the new replacement.{{Citation needed|date=August 2013}}

== History and Current Status ==

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== Comparison to Microsoft Project ==

Compared to [[Microsoft_Project|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.

However, there are small differences in the UI (comments apply to version 1.4), which take some adaptation for those familiar with Microsoft Project, i.e. OpenProj can't link upwards with method (c), inserting tasks is more difficult than in Microsoft Project, and OpenProj can't create resources on the fly (have to create them first in the resource sheet). There are also several more serious limitations with OpenProj, the chief of these being the unavailability of more detailed views and reports typical of Microsoft Project. For example, though the fields exist for cost, there is no quick way to show them other than to manually insert them. This requires a relatively advanced user: someone who knows what the fields might be called and how to use them.

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== Derivatives ==

=== ProjectLibre ===

Recently, the original founders of OpenProj started to develop a complementary server for OpenProj, 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 during the last four years will become problematic to their goal, so they needed to develop first an significantly updated version of OpenProj. This version was released as a [[Fork (software development)|fork]] called [[ProjectLibre]] in August 2012. The complementary server will be called ''ProjectLibre Server''.<ref>[http://www.projectlibre.org/ ProjectLibre Website]</ref>