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 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.[2] It is released under the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL) and qualifies as Free Software according to the Free Software Foundation.

ProjectLibre
Demonstration of the ProjectLibre GUI
Developer(s)Marc O'Brien, Laurent Chrettieneau
Initial releaseAugust 19, 2012
Stable release
1.9.0 / March 5, 2019 (2019-03-05)
Repositorysourceforge.net/p/projectlibre/code
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform
Available in21 languages including Arabic, Chinese (simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and others[1]
TypeProject management software
LicenseCommon Public Attribution License
Websitewww.projectlibre.org

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.[3]

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.[4] 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:

Comparison to Microsoft Project

Compared to Microsoft Project, which it closely emulates, ProjectLibre has a similar user interface (UI) including a ribbon-style menu, 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) look the same as for Microsoft Project. Costing features are comparable: labour, hourly rate, material usage, and fixed costs: these are all provided.[5]

ProjectLibre Improvements
  • Full compatibility with Microsoft Project 2010, import/export capability
  • Printing
  • PDF exporting (without any restrictions)
  • Ribbon user interface
  • Many bug fixes and correction of issues that OpenProj encounters that are mentioned above

See also

References
  1. "New Release of ProjectLibre and Update on Cloud Progress". ProjectLibre. July 10, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  2. ProjectLibre: open source alternative to Microsoft Project Archived October 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "February 2016, "Staff Pick" Project of the Month – ProjectLibre". SourceForge Community Blog. February 4, 2016. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
  4. Hibbets, Jason. "ProjectLibre edges in on Microsoft Project dominance". opensource.com. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
  5. Kelly, Will. "Take your project management application open source with ProjectLibre". techrepublic.com, CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
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