Right, lucky for us our top brass is also a believer of FOSS, most of our servers are already running on Linux, even the most critical ones. Those that are left were some legacy apps that we couldn't run on Linux like the auto attendant with old dialogic cards. But those hopefully will be replaced by asterisk+linux compatible cards soon.
We're studying IBM's redbook on the migration now, and if I only understood German, I'd be reading the Ministry of Internal Affairs Migration Cookbook too! but I'd still like to hear stories of it being done locally, to reinforce our case. lawrence On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 08:14 +0800, Dong Calmada wrote: > As long as you have executive champions from the top (most especially > the CEO) and you got a team determined to lead the way, you'll be in a > good position. > > Just convince your MS power users and macro gurus on the advantages of > OpenOffice. I'm sure that'll push you further on the Herculean task. > > Searching the Internet on FOSS migration will definitely show a > handful of success stories and guides. > > In my experience, the following steps boost the chances for a > successful migration: > > (Assumptions: > a. Felt need by the leadership to cut costs in software/computing. > b. Presence of FOSS users/advocates in the company/organization.) > > 1. Making a 'business case' (which is needed for Step No. 2; to be > done by FOSS users/advocates in the company). > 2. Developing executive champions from the top leadership. > 3. Company/staff meeting chaired by a CEO on the need to change the > computing environment within the company. > 4. Core group building (one that will lead the way) > 5. Company-wide orientation on FOSS (benefits and trade-offs) > 6. Migration planning > 7. Implementation > 8. Monitoring and evaluation _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
