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Initial Results of a Large-Scale Migration Project by Carlo Daffara (Groklaw)
Groklaw has published
a preliminary study by Carlo Daffara that looks at European migrations
to OpenOffice.org and Linux.
"They are measuring and facilitating migrations in a two-step strategy, initially to OpenOffice.org and later to GNU/Linux on the desktops. They already have thousands of desktops migrated, with thousands more planned. The data on switching to OpenOffice.org is very encouraging.
What have they found so far? What makes the transition work well? Are there steps one can take to improve user acceptance and ease transitional issues? He told me some of what they found, and I asked him if he'd be willing to elaborate on the findings for Groklaw, and he graciously agreed."
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This is perhaps the most significant article this week. Posted Oct 22, 2005 17:52 UTC (Sat) by grantingram (subscriber, #18390) [Link] Well obviously it's more fun to talk about Gandhi's words of wisdom and what a large proprietary software company is up to! But this article is well worth reading... I thought it was the most significant thing I've seen about free software deployment for some time. Particularly the bit about the major obstacles to successful migration being social rather than technical in nature.
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