On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 23:06, Uwe Dippel wrote: > http://www.kbst.bund.de/Anlage303777/pdf_datei.pdf For those that missed it, EU also published another very comprehensive report. http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida/jsps/index.jsp?fuseAction=showDocument&parent=news&documentID=1647 Includes an Excel file (unfortunately), that even has built in formulas to calculate the costs for migration for a period from 1-6 years. Technically both documents are very sound, which shows real migration paths and tools used based on experience (anybody who has done migration will recognise it). There are issues though for those doing migration in Malaysia should be aware of not covered in these documents: 1. Migration also reveals major faults in design/implementation of original applications, resulting in higher costs than anticipated. The costs can be equal to that of beginning the project from scratch. 2. Shortage of quality developers. What was the estimate 200 or so OSS developers? Hopefully the unix/oss culture of sharing knowledge will result in a proportionately higher amount of quality OSS developers. For what it's a worth, there has already been a successful migration of a very large (3 man years) M'sian govt IT project to OSS. Hopefully I can prod my ex-colleagues to write up a paper on it. (You know who you are ;) -- "Optimized, readable, on time; Pick any two." FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT i386 12:14AM up 5:21, 2 users, load averages: 1.18, 1.26, 1.19
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