Alternatives to Microsoft Project

[groomi]

I've been very impressed by various free administration type packages including things like Google Calendar and was wondering if there are any free and simple to use alternatives to Microsoft Project out there?

I use MS Project for about 50% of my projects at the moment with the other 50% too small to warrant it. I'd like something simpler and more intuitive which I can collaborate with the junior members of my team to track all projects, no matter how small.

Any suggestions and/or links I can look at?

[MoonMonkey]

Excel is the simplest to use. At least it's straight forward to create S curves, cost reports etc

[trooperiziz]

MoonMonkey said:

Excel is the simplest to use. At least it's straight forward to create S curves, cost reports etc

I think you missed the point slightly

http://www.openworkbench.org/ is the only opensource MS Project replacement I've heard about, but I've never used it.

[bishbash]

ProjectPier is pretty good & free.

[groomi]

Cheers Guys, I'll check them out this evening.

[gamefreaks]

http://www.projity.com/

OpenWorkBench is better BUT this one is compatible with MS Project files.