Has Your Business Switched to Open Source? Dave Neary Would Like to Hear Your Story
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I'm not above admitting that I wish I'd thought of this before Dave Neary. This week, Neary called for input from businesses that have migrated from Windows and closed software to open alternatives.
Neary intends on assembling the responses as a series of case studies, with each study addressing a different stage in the migration process. Neary's request isn't industry-specific, and from the description of topics he'd like to cover, businesses with some degree of "hybridization" are invited to share their experiences.
Neary's hope is to document, in a manner that business owners and IT departments can easily relate to, the challenges their peers encountered during migration as well as insights on how to simplify the transition.
The final case studies should prove interesting. While every facet of the migration process Neary plans on discussing won't apply to every business, businesses contemplating even a partial move to open source should find some of the topics pertinent. It will be intriguing, especially, to see how different businesses handled mission-critical proprietary applications during migration. What kind of business environments opted to use those applications on dedicated hardware? Which businesses chose emulation software?
Neary invites any organization who has made the transition to contact him via the comments on his blog or through his gnome.org email account (dneary).
