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EU Publishes Open Source Migration Guidelines

Posted by michael on from the order-a-copy-for-the-boss dept.

Skunil writes "The IDA Open Source Migration Guidelines provide practical and detailed recommendations on how to migrate to Open Source Software (OSS)-based office applications, calendaring, e-mail and other standard applications. These guidelines have been designed to help public administrators decide whether a migration to OSS should be undertaken and describe, in broad technical terms, how such a migration could be carried out. They are based on practical experience of a limited number of publicly available case studies, and cover a wide range of management and technical concerns."

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  1. simple as 1,2,3 by OffTheLip · · Score: 3, Funny

    Boot cdrom format load linux

  2. Spreadsheet in XLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone else find the humor in the spreadsheet being an XLS file? I figure if the target audience is a group of people who use MS products, then they'll have no problem opening that XLS file.

    1. Re:Spreadsheet in XLS by jpetts · · Score: 4, Funny

      Anyone else find the humor in the spreadsheet being an XLS file?

      Oh, what a wasted opportunity! You could have said it was ironic, end been the very first person ever on Slashdot to have correctly made that assertion!

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  3. Eeeeek by devphil · · Score: 4, Funny


    I'd feel better about these "how to transition your project to open source" guidelines if the first step weren't

    1. If you don't already have one, get an account on sourceforge.net.

    Okay, okay, just kidding.

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  4. Step one... by dankdirk77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Step one... stop bending over

    Step two... remove Microsoft "probe"

    *FREEDOM*

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  5. Error in instructions by rhombic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't you think step two should precede, rather than follow, step one? I mean, ouch...

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    1. Re:Error in instructions by PetiePooo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't you think step two should precede, rather than follow, step one? I mean, ouch...

      Now that's just deeply disturbing!

  6. Re:Funny, but I disagree. by ingenuus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Furthermore, irony, being defined as contrary to expectation, is subjective: what I expect may be different from what you expect. Therefore, I would say that every use of the word "irony" could in fact be accurate if the situation is contrary to what that particular person expects.

    So, while I do not think it was ironic, I believe you did (i.e. it was contrary to your expectation, as erroneous as I feel that expectation may be :)), and therefore you used the word accurately.