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German Linux Migration White Paper Updated

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the true-path-to-enlightenment dept.

TheRealDamion writes to let us know that the German Federal Government Co-Ordination and Advisory Agency (KBSt) has released an updated version of their Linux Migration guide whitepaper. This guide, originally released in 2003, is incredibly detailed offering assistance on a wide range of issues that could be faced in a migration from Windows to Linux.

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  1. Spain has a lot of Official Distros by Uukrul · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It's better to try to do the change like Germany is doing than to add another distro to the market. Spain has a lot of distros for every comunidad, but it lacks politic objectives.

    Spanish oficial distros (From spanish Wikipedia):
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    My city: Barcelona.
  2. Not for company CEOs by 12dec0de · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A number of comments that came before mine mention company CEOs that are supposed to be swayed by this document. No such thing!

    This paper is a goodsend (yes I knew about the earlier edition. Got one in hardcopy on my desk) for a lowly public sector employee like me.

    Why? because evertime I want to install any OSS somebody in the commity that decides on these things will whip out a ProprietoryGlossyPamphlet(tm) and ask me 'what about...' (license, support, copyright, patents, etc.) and will not believe any word I say. So I whip out my "Leitfaden für die Migration von Basissoftwarekomponenten auf Server- und Arbeitsplatzsystemen" and tell them what a federal agency had to say on that matter and they usually shut up.

    The answers on legal subjects are aimed at the public service sector. While probably true for a private company, it is not the target audience.