I am a freelancer who also outsources some work. Back a couple of years ago when I started outsourcing, I felt like the time was spending "managing" projects was not worth the meager profit I derived from them, so I started looking for ways to automate parts of that process. I didn't find anything that quite satisfied my need, as I saw it. So, I started to learn some programming, and, I wrote a tool for crunching up many of the numbers that are part of managing a translation project.
It's called TransProCalc.
It is FREE/Open Source Software, released under the Gnu Public License (GPL v. 3). One can find it here:
http://www.baldwinsoftware.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Transprocalc
enjoy
tony
