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Project Management Software is a term covering many types of software, including scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, quality management and documentation or administration systems, which are used to deal with the complexity of large projects.

Project management software can be implemented as a Web application, accessed through an intranet or extranet using a web browser.

This has all the usual advantages and disadvantages of web applications:

• Can be accessed from any type of computer without installing software.
• Ease of access-control.
• Naturally multi-user.
• Only one software version and installation to maintain.
• Typically slower to respond than desktop applications.
• Project information not available when the user (or server) is offline.
• Some packages do allow the user to "go-offline".

Collaborative software (also referred to as groupware or workgroup support systems) is software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their goals. Collaborative software is the basis for computer supported cooperative work.

Such software systems as email, calendaring, text chat, wiki belong in this category. It has been suggested that Metcalfe's law - the more people who use something, the more valuable it becomes - applies to such software.

EGroupware

EGroupware is a free enterprise ready groupware software for your network. It enables you to manage contacts, appointments, todos and many more for your whole business.

EGroupware is a groupware server. It comes with a native web-interface which allowes to access your data from any platform all over the planet. Moreover you also have the choice to access the EGroupware server with your favorite groupware client (Kontact, Evolution, Outlook) and also with your mobile or PDA via SyncML.

EGroupware is international. At the time, it supports more than 25 languages including rtl support.

Development Status: Production/Stable.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL).
Operating System: Platform Independent.
Available Languages: Basque, Brazil (Portugese), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian , Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Slovak,Slovenian, Swedish and partly support for Bulgarian, Czech, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Lithuanian, Persian, Portugese, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
http://www.egroupware.org

phpGroupWare

phpGroupWare is a fully featured, web based messaging, collaboration and enterprise management platform. It comes with over 50 applications that can be mixed and matched according to your needs. Some of the most powerful features include:

• Contacts management.
• Email.
• Shared calendar.
• Web content and document management and sharing.
• Project management.
• Issues tracking.

At the core of phpGroupWare is an advanced Application Programming Interface (API) which allows you to build and deploy your own web based applications quickly and easily. The API easily supports multiple database backends, permissions and access controls, user interface generation and multiple languages.

phpGroupWare is flexible and scalable. It is suitable for small groups of people and large organizations. phpGroupWare is international - it currently supports over 20 languages. Around the world tens of thousands of people use phpGroupWare every day.

phpGroupWare is part of the GNU project.

Development Status: Production/Stable.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL).
Operating System: Cross Platform.
Available Languages: Over 20 languages.
http://www.phpgroupware.org

dotProject

dotProject is a web-based project management application, designed to provide project layout and control functions.

dotProject aims to provide the project manager with a tool to manage tasks, schedules, communication and sharing. But beware, dotProject will not be all things to all project managers - you may find that other FOSS tools are more appropriate to your particular requirements. You will need to do some investigation and testing to find the product that best suits your requirements.

dotProject assumes that you understand the basic concepts of project management and what it is that you are trying to achieve in looking for a project management tool.

Development Status: Production/Stable.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL).
Operating System: Cross Platform.
Available Languages: English.
http://www.dotproject.net

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