El uso del software libre en las administraciones públicas de la UE

682. Number of users about 16.0003. Application software on the clients Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and MicrosoftOffice 97/20004. Number of software products about 3005. Number of applications about 170 (excluding host-based applications)6. Centrally controlled applications Databases, Fileservice, E-Mail-, Calendar, Faxand Directory-Server (Limux. The IT Evolution 2004).Se ha proyectado una migración gradual, con la idea de agotar lostérminos de servicio de los programas propietarios utilizados, lo quesupone una etapa provisional de transición en que se hará uso deemuladores como Wine cuando no haya otra alternativa, aunque elobjetivo final es una migración completa a FLOSS:The city council decided unanimously on a "soft" migration over 5 years. The firstadministration's work places will be changed against the defined basic client in late2004. The migration will be realised mainly through internal employee capacitieswithout compromising on-going activities. An operation with emulation systems forWindows applications (e.g. VM-Ware, Terminal servers or Wine) shall not be usedin principle, except for cases where no other solution can be found. The long-termgoal is a complete shift to pure open source software without the use of softwareemulation applications. A parallel use of two different operating systems (opensource and proprietary systems) is regarded as critical by IT administrators.However, the administration of two different systems would be highly demanding onIT administration. For this reason it was determined that existing systems based onproprietary software will be used until the end of their life-cycles. Simultaneously,open source applications that can replace existing proprietary software will bedeveloped. Web-based applications will be created. This implementation makes theapplications independent from any operating system and ensures a less complicatedshift to other operating systems. The migration team assumes that as a consequenceof developing market trends, more and more hardware and applications will beavailable for open source systems. In general, workstations that are less problematicwill be replaced first (Limux – The IT Evolution 2004).Otro tema que se ha tenido en cuenta en el proyecto es la formacióny familiarización del personal con el nuevo software:Key to the success of the migration is a well-defined communication between themigration teams and end-users. Employees were informed through intranetpresentations, introduction seminars, flyers, demonstration systems and personaldiscussions about the new system, which is scheduled to replace the majority of theproprietary computer systems by 2008. The goal of the information dissemination isto decrease employee fears and reservations about the use of open source software.Employee training starts with the beginning of the first client replacement (Limux –The IT Evolution 2004).