How to make migrations to FOSS successful on the long term
summary
Migration failures trace to poor planning and no business-facing support: case studies include Fryberg reverted to pirated Microsoft Office, canton Solothurn and municipal moves that collapsed when community help stopped, and Munich’s long covert Microsoft campaign leading to rollback. Concrete claims: 10x more vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office than Libre Office and $50 billion desktop market with 95% net profit ($47.5B) that fuels marketing. The recommended approach pairs measurable security and cost data with sustained marketing, training and stakeholder-facing project management.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to FOSS migrations
- 1:25Migration horror stories
- 3:56Failures due to lack of support
- 8:14Business mindset for migrations
- 10:47Strategic industry perspective
- 13:21Cost as migration trigger
- 15:55Talking business with numbers
- 16:21Q&A session
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