ProjectLibre


ProjectLibre is a project management software company with both a free open source desktop and upcoming Cloud version. ProjectLibre desktop is a free and open-source project management software system intended ultimately as a standalone replacement for Microsoft Project. ProjectLibre has been downloaded over 4,500,000 times in 200+ countries and is the second most popular project management software globally. ProjectLibre is written in the Java programming language, and will thus theoretically run on any machine for which a fully functioning Java Virtual Machine exists. Currently, ProjectLibre is certified to run on Linux, MacOS and MS Windows. It is released under the Common Public Attribution License and qualifies as Free Software according to the Free Software Foundation.
ProjectLibre's initial release was in August 2012. Currently hosted on the SourceForge open-source hosting service, it was selected as the Staff Choice Project of the Month for February 2016 by the SourceForge staff. an introductory video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xwR4JCBaIU
ProjectLibre Cloud is a web-based project management ProjectLibre Cloud will be a multi-user, multi-project version in your browser. It will be similar to Google Docs compared to Microsoft Word. The Beta test timing has not been announced.

History

ProjectLibre was developed by the founders of the abandoned project OpenProj. In late 2008 Projity was acquired by Silver Lake Partners the Private Equity firm and their investment Serena Software.
As of early 2009, support for OpenProj and communication about development of OpenProj was suspended. There were negative regressions with a few commits to the CVS. Serena subsequently announced and posted online to avoid downloading and instead download ProjectLibre. They were focused on the Cloud/SaaS version of software.
In 2012, the founders announced that they forked the project and released a new version called ProjectLibre in August 2012. ProjectLibre has been completely rewritten and thus technically cease to be a fork. The team is looking in late 2019 to release a cloud version as well which will extend the desktop features with team and enterprise features.

Features

The current version includes:
Compared to Microsoft Project, which it closely emulates, ProjectLibre has a similar user interface including a ribbon-style menu, and a similar approach to construction of a project plan: create an indented task list or work breakdown structure, set durations, create links mouse drag, selection and then button-down, or, assign resources. The columns look the same as for Microsoft Project. Costing features are comparable: labour, hourly rate, material usage, and fixed costs: these are all provided.

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