Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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DE: Manual for migrating to Open Source updated
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| The German Ministry of the Interior has published the third edition of
| its 'Migrationsleitfaden', a manual for public administrations migrating to
| Open Source.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7675/469
Here is an English translation of the previous edition, in 504 pages
from March 2005, and an excerpt:
http://www.kbst.bund.de/cln_012/nn_837406/SharedDocs/Anlagen-kbst/Migrationsleitfaden/migration-guide-2nd-edition__pdf,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/migration-guide-2nd-edition_pdf.pdf
The reason behind the migration guide is the the need to act on the part of the
administration due to the discontinuation of support for Windows NT and Ex-
change 5.5. When the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) decided to prepare
the migration guide, the majority of IT infrastructures in the public administration
were based on Windows NT systems. This meant that the public administration
had to face a medium-term, major change for important parts of its IT landscape.
This situation, along with long-term aims resulting from the federal government's
politically driven IT strategy, i.e.
software diversity
improved interoperability of systems
platform and manufacturer independence
system openness and flexibility,
induced the Federal Ministry of the Interior to draft a guide for migrating
basic software components on server and desktop PC systems.
Against this background and in implementing the strategic goals, migration by
replacing existing Microsoft products with technological alternatives must be as-
sessed in addition to migration by way of continuing the existing Microsoft prod-
ucts – and both from a technical and economic point of view. In line with the ap-
proach pursued by the German parliament, the technological alternatives to be
considered in this context are Linux-based systems, in particular, open source
software (OSS) and commercial software that can be run under Linux. Public
administrations are not yet very familiar with these systems and in contrast to
Microsoft systems, it is relatively difficult to acquire information about these alter-
native systems. And this is what the migration guide aims to remedy.
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