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Follow an open source migration as it happens
March 16, 2007
Mercian Labels is a UK-based SME specializing in custom printed self-adhesive labels for businesses. In late 2006 the company got fed up with “viruses, software problems and perpetual maintenance issues” associated with its Windows environment and decided to move to open source alternatives.
Finding a dearth of SME open source adoption case studies and information, the company has decided to launch a blog about its experiences, written by managing director Adrian Steele.
It’s early days, but so far you can read about the background story, the previous IT set up the SWOT analysis,
the research into open source projects and providers, the open source software of choice, the migration plan, and the first teething problems, and successes.
It should make for interesting reading going forward.
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