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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. Re:Spreadsheet in XLS by beacher · · Score: 4, Informative

    Other links in the pdf -
    1. The OSS Fact Sheet
    2. The Report on OSS usage
    3. The Report on market structure and issues related to public procurement
    All three of the above documents can be found here in other formats as well as PDF.
    -B

  2. Re:Opportunity knocks by am+2k · · Score: 3, Informative

    SQLite is an open source (even public domain!) personal SQL-capable database. It lacks some features (like types other than strings and some SQL commands), but it's very useful for embedded databases.

  3. Re:Opportunity knocks by Yarn · · Score: 3, Informative

    Openoffice 1.1 has a rudimentary DB interface. It needs work, but a graphical query design (similar to access's) is there already. The backend can be any odbc or jdbc database, as far as I can tell.

    --
    -Yarn - Rio Karma: Excellent
  4. Re:Opportunity knocks by whereiswaldo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not me, amigo, but as a consultant, I can't count on my two hands the number of times I've had to either warehouse data from, or (worse) interface with an existing Access database.

    Funny, when I was in college, I was told over and over again that MS Access was a solution to be touted to customers. While we were taught Oracle, Access was great for small businesses and non-profit organizations.
    Now that I know better not to use Access, I can think of a bunch of alternatives that I would rather use. Access is not a multi-user-friendly system.