While I wait for project approval, I'm going ahead with establishing the project infrastructure. The first piece of technology is for project management, i.e., to track tasks and actual time spent (vs. budgeted/estimated). I've narrowed the OpenSource candidates to (*drumroll*):
[Double Choco Latte] and [The Ultimate Team Organization Software]
Both also track bugs (alas, it seems I won't be using Bugzilla), and neither forces you into any one specific DBMS (i.e., MySQL, PostgreSQL, and various commercial offerings are supported).
I'll post a mini-review after I've evaluated and selected one.
-- Robocoder