Resistance to Change Hampers OSS Migration

User resistance to change remains one the major obstacles to overcome in any successful open source migration. This is the view of Michael Bohn, senior consultant for office migration at Sun Microsystem.

Bohn points out that the reasons to migrate to OpenOffice.org are numerous and include significant cost savings, cross-platform support and open standards, helping organisations avoid being locked into proprietary solutions.

Bohn, who advises governments and companies around the world on open source migrations, states that the most important part of migration to OpenOffice.org is having a solid understanding of the type of documents that will need to be catered for.

However, he argues that in his experience, organisations assume that all documents will have to be converted, adding that the truth is usually that just a few key documents and templates need converting.

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