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Germany Publishes Windows to Linux Migration Guide

Posted by michael on from the german-efficiency dept.

Bombcar writes "This Migration Document is also available. It has details on going from WinNT to Linux/FLOSS/Samba et.al, with less detail on RedHat/Ximian/GNOME and more on SuSE/Mandrake/KDE. See Kurt's post to Samba Technical for more details."

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  1. Re:The IDA Open Source Migration Guidelines by danimo · · Score: 5, Informative
    (Tiny rant about the EU guide following:)

    I read both quite carefully, the EU as as well as the German one and I came to the following conclusion:

    The EU one does not:
    • go in-depth
    • contain retability calculations (which points out a very significant strength of OSS: the price)
    • is mostly a (quite incomplete) listing of solutions, especially in the groupware or database area (Kolab, SAB-DB?)

    Another important aspect of the German migration guide was that it always kept the comparison to the "continuing migration" which shows the trade-offs and advantages of OSS migration and thus gives a balanced picture. I can't really blame the EU guide for this, since it simply didn't have this goal.

    But I think there is a very significant point of critisism left: The German migration guide had co-authors from experts (see co-authors section in the PDF for reference), which ensures that the descriptions are more in-depth and exploit all features of new version (This is very important for Samba for example. The EU guide is more a list of applications with features listed "as advertised". The EU left out Debian completely. While I am not a Debian zealot, I know of quite some successful migrations to Debian and the German migration guide acknowledges this. It doesn't take a RHAS or SLES to migrate to Linux!