On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 08:49, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: > Planning and scheduling. > GANTT charts and resource-tracking/allocating charts with a scheduling engine > behind them.
> Does that sound like a useful "next direction" for OOo development? Roughly seven years ago, a project to create an equivalent of MS Project, within OOo was started. Some tools were released. For various reasons, those tools don't work with OOo 3.x. > Or is the number of people who use OOo professionally too small to support > such an addition? I _think_ that the issue is the lack of coders. > Alternatively, does anybody know of a substitute for MS Project? There is a page on the OOo Wiki, that lists FLOSS options to MS Project. > If I recall correctly, at one time OOo didn't include a database component > either, but eventually it happened. So why not planning, too? OOo 1.0 did include a database. It was a dBase 3 clone. (I _think_ it is still present in OOo 3.0.) Project planning software has some interesting programming challenges. Most, but not all of the issues are database related. (If your database doesn't contain the appropriate fields, it will be impossible for the program to include the required functionality.) jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
