> came up with 14 hits where three seemed like good prospects (Achievo, > FUTURe, and MrProject). FUTURe hasn't been updated in a year and MrProject > hasn't reached production level. we looked for project-management tools for quite a while here at Real-Time. We tried Achievo; but IMHO (others hold wildly differing opinions), achievo is an unremitted pile of excrement. the user interface is truly vile: - there's too much wasted space on the screen (*lots* of blank space; which is morally repugnant to me... destop space is preciously small). - there's too many interfaces - one needs to choose several differant management screens, to update a project or check its status. every screen has different interface conventions. - there's no way to make incremental update notes that are easily readable. there's only one descriptor field for the project; so no way to add update notes to that, and associate a trackable time value with each. We've gone to using Keystone for project management now; and I'm pretty happy with it. the UI is good (not perfect, but good); and it's fairly mature. it's not completely Free; there are some licensing hooks attached to it; but it's PHP3, so it's pretty Open Source, and there's supposedly a community of volunteer developers who contribute to it. Bob Tanner knows more about the licensing. Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700