It’s been a long time coming. For years, I’ve been looking on and off for an open source project management application. Now I’ve got something of a scoop, because of an email I received this morning from Marc O’Brien, CEO of Projity.

Projity will announce its new, cross-platform desktop project management application at LinuxWorld next week.

In the meantime, Marc wrote me to introduce the application: “OpenProj is free and open source software that is a complete replacement for Microsoft Project. OpenProj has equivalent functionality, opens native Microsoft Project files and is available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows. Microsoft Project resides on 7% of all Office desktops and is part of the Office family of solutions (retail is $1,000 or to be precise $999.99). However, Project is not included in any Office Suites so it is not pre-installed on any computers which means even Windows users need to purchase very expensive software for their project needs. OpenProj is free and also cross platform.”

Projity is looking to work with the OpenOffice.org community, as a project management tool is a natural complement to the open source office suite. Working together should find strong synergies between the two projects.

August 7 will see a full release and updated websites to support the project, but you can download it now from here. I’m currently testing it out and very much looking forward to using OpenProj.

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