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netproject consultants have extensive expertise designing and building IT systems, using best of breed of both proprietary and OSS. Systems built by netproject have outstanding reputations for being highly reliable and secure. netproject has extensive contacts with the Open Source community. Where clients require specific consultancy advice or skills netproject will use these contacts to complement netproject's skills.
The migration to OSS needs to be well planned and undertaken in a series of well planned steps. Large scale 'big bang' projects must be avoided - they almost always fail. netproject has produced Open Source Migration Guidelines for the European Commission. These can be found on our web site www.netproject.com
Developing a detailed cost of ownership model is a difficult and time consuming task. netproject has developed cost of ownership models that enable the relative cost differences of OSS to be determined. These are designed to show the savings, or otherwise, of migrating to OSS. These models, together with consultancy advice, are available to netproject clients.
Those that are considering the migration to OSS should deploy small scale pilot projects at an early stage. These enable practical experience to be gained using OSS and can also be used to demonstrate the quality of OSS. They enable subsequent migration plans to be based on practical experience. netproject has deployed pilot systems in a number of organisations that are migrating their IT systems to OSS.