The open source migration process in Cuba from a methodological approach

Abstract

In 2009 was created the “Cuban Migration Guide to Free Software” by the Free Solutions Center at the University of Informatics Sciences, to define the guidelines and solutions that will guide the national migration. It has been used in Cuba as a reference document by all the institutions and people that execute migration processes. From the experience of its implementation, the feedback from those who used it and the recommendations of those who lead the migration process in the country it has been detected a set of shortcomings and possible improvements in process execution. Thus arises the problem of how to improve the existing mechanism for the execution of the migration process to open source applications. This work aims to restructure the existing model for the implementation of the migration processes in Cuba, from the experiences and shortcomings. Restructuring how to execute the migration process is based on the national experiences. It discusses the results of applying the proposal for the implementation of migration in the Cybernetics Applied to Medicine Center , giving a comparative analysis regard to the company Telemar: a migrated organization following the current version of the Cuban Migration Guide to Free Software that shows the effectiveness of Cuban migration platform to make faster some activities.

Keywords

• Free software
• methodology
• migration
• open source