Fulfilling legal requirements comes second and correcting errors comes third, according to the guide.
The OSS Kompetenzzentrum will present the fourth edition of its 'Migrationsleitfaden' on 6 March 2012, at the CeBIT fair in Hanover. The draft guide has already been available since 12 December 2011 at the website of the resource centre.
Bernd Weber, project leader and one of the authors of the migration guide at a Munich IT consultancy, says: "The past months we received about ten comments on the draft text, mostly from software makers that suggested improvements to some of our descriptions of their applications."
The guide lists seven other reasons to migrate to open source according to German public administrations. These include adding functionality, improving integration with other IT systems, improving interoperability and reducing costs.
Senior management
The draft guide stresses that public administrations that are considering a significant move to free and open source software involve senior management and other relevant authorities. "This involvement and consultation should be made permanent, for example by regular meetings, to ensure long-term support and attention of senior management for the project and to increase transparency."
The OSS Kompetenzzentrum, part of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, issued its first 'Guidelines for the migration of software' in 2003. The fourth edition will consist of more than 200 pages, with paragraphs describing the best strategy, good approaches for change management and with tips on project management.
It focuses on migrations to open standards and open source for typical parts of the IT infrastructure such as authentication, groupware and virtualisation. It also describes the use of open source on desktops, including the use of open source web browsers, personal information systems, office suites, document management suites, content management systems and applications involving PDFs.
Bernd Weber's presentation on the migration guide will take place next on 6 March, at 2:30 pm in Halle 2, Stand E56 of CeBIT.
Further information:
- Original news article - Joinup
- Related ePractice event notice - DE: CeBIT 2012
- Page on the draft text of the migration guide - OSS Kompetenzzentrum (in German)
- Information on CeBIT's Open Source Forum 2012
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