I do not have a copy of MS Project. I did recently download a copy of OpenProj 1.4 by Serena Software. Thus far I've produced a somewhat organized first draft of my current systems conversion project as a task list with Gantt chart. It looks impressive. When I printed my project out on 8.5 X 11 sheets and taped it all together into a traditional newspaper sized list and diagram and showed it to my client I could see he was impressed as well. It's free, i.e., open source. According to the "About" menu item, I've opened it all of 7 times since downloading and maybe found one or two glitches, but for the most part I got my Gantt chart accomplished with intuition developed likely from experience with MS Project and my PMI PMP certification study. From download to useful and artistic Gantt chart hand off to client in perhaps 5 days or 14 hours of work.
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