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I've installed Journyx (http://www.journyx.com/) at the last two places I've worked. It doesn't do scheduling, but punch in/punch out as well as more free-flowing time entry, plus expenses and milage. Free for up to 10 users, after that you pay, but the (few) times I've had to call them for tech support they've been great. And it runs on Linux. I was all over that. (That was a big thing for me 7 years ago, the first time I installed it.)

It is free of cost for 10 users or less. It's a web application and the server runs under Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and others, or you can pay Journyx to host the application for you.

I admit that I might be biased, I am a senior developer for Journyx.

It's free (as in beer) for 10 users or less. It's not open-source itself, but it's built on open-source stuff such as Python, Apache, and Postgresql.

A new version is coming out soon which has a much prettier CSS interface than the current version.

And yeah, I am biased because I am the senior developer at the company.

I was going to say Journyx. It's built on open source as well, but it's pricing is a little steep, IMO. (Hey, no one said the OSS here had to be free, did they?) However, the first 10 users are free, and the setup takes about 5 minutes. (I'm going to demo it for some managers this week.)

I'm also going to take a look at this one, and see how it stacks up...

Hmmm... then it's probably not the system that my company produces. What you described sounded like it could have been an old version of our product, from before the time I joined the company and turned it into the kick-ass piece of software it is today. ;-)

Journyx Timesheet is a nice, lightweight product, and we just rolled it out at my company. An OSS plus is that it is written in Python, although I believe it is compiled. It is webbased, and uses anything you can hook up via ODBC for the back end. We run it on a beefy desktop and it is responsive enough for 70-some users. Not affiliated, just a satisfied customer and all that jazz.

My company used to use Journyx but we got rid of it because it seemed to have limited featues, and was a bit cumbersome (just my opinion)...

although i already posted about the product we swtiched to (on another post), i'll mention it here for a price comparison...

we switched to Track-ITwhich (From their web site) appears to cost $227 for the suite, and another $227 for "Punchclock per 50 employees"....

so, there's another option.... http://www.dovico.com/

I'll start with the obvious - did you search Google or Freshmeat for Time Reporting solutions?

You don't say how many users you are supporting, but if it's less than ten I have an answer for you. Journyx has a timesheet program that is free for less than ten users. It is commercial software that runs on Windows NT, Windows 2000, AIX, Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD. Annual maintenance (giving you priority tech support)runs $435, within your limit. Pricing beyond 10 users is above your price limit, starting at $1375 for the next 10 users.

They also offer a hosted version of their app, with the following pricing: a minimum purchase bundle of 25 users, a monthly cost of $7 per user, and an initial setup fee of the higher of $250 or $10 per user. I can't tell from your problem description if this will fit your needs or not, as, for example, if you had 25 users this would have an inital cost of $250 and then an ongoing monthly expense of $175, costing $2350 for the first year. There are also online partners running 5- or 10-user hosted sites free, if you have this few users and don't want to run the application in-house.

This is a web-based solution - users would log in to the web page and clock in or out themselves. Reporting capabilities are built-in. The fact that the app is web-based permits you to secure the host and fulfills your requirement that time reporting be secured from end-user tampering.

I'll start with the obvious - did you search Google or Freshmeat for Time Reporting solutions?

You don't say how many users you are supporting, but if it's less than ten I have an answer for you. Journyx has a timesheet program that is free for less than ten users. It is commercial software that runs on Windows NT, Windows 2000, AIX, Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD. Annual maintenance (giving you priority tech support)runs $435, within your limit. Pricing beyond 10 users is above your price limit, starting at $1375 for the next 10 users.

They also offer a hosted version of their app, with the following pricing: a minimum purchase bundle of 25 users, a monthly cost of $7 per user, and an initial setup fee of the higher of $250 or $10 per user. I can't tell from your problem description if this will fit your needs or not, as, for example, if you had 25 users this would have an inital cost of $250 and then an ongoing monthly expense of $175, costing $2350 for the first year. There are also online partners running 5- or 10-user hosted sites free, if you have this few users and don't want to run the application in-house.

This is a web-based solution - users would log in to the web page and clock in or out themselves. Reporting capabilities are built-in. The fact that the app is web-based permits you to secure the host and fulfills your requirement that time reporting be secured from end-user tampering.