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Programs:OpenProj
Developed by	Projity
Initial release	August 6, 2007
Latest release	OpenProj 1.4 / 2008-09-30; 452 days ago
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	English
Type	Project management software
License	Common Public Attribution License
Website	OpenProj

OpenProj is an open source project intended as a complete desktop replacement for Microsoft Project; it can open existing native Project files. OpenProj runs on the Java Platform, allowing it to run on a variety of different operating systems.^[1] Version 1.0 of the programme was released on January 10 2008.^[2] Includes:

Earned Value costing
Gantt chart
PERT graph
Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS) chart
Task usage reports
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) chart^[1]

[edit] Acceptance

It has been downloaded over 800,000 times in over 142 countries. Three months after the beta version release, on SourceForge an average of 40,000 copies a month were downloaded. With a SourceForge activity percentile of 99.964, at number 15 it was listed just ahead of the popular messaging application Pidgin (software).^[3] In May 2008 the total number of downloads on SourceForge reached 500,000.^[4]

In late 2008 Projity was acquired by Serena.^[5] As of early 2009 support for OpenProj and communication about development of OpenProj seem to have been been suspended.[1] However, there were active commits continuing to the CVS, so someone was working on the code.[2]