Possible Challenges of Developing Migration Projects

Organisations often face the challenges of migrating from legacy systems to new target systems. Open Source Software (OSS) is being suggested as a solution to a lot of computing problems. This paper presents an overview of Open Source Software migration and suggests criteria for assessing migration challenges. The Challenges are legacy system inflexibility, lack of scalability, lack of wider data access, shortage of skills, high cost of maintenance and unreliability. Couple this with continually changing technologies, and organizations are faced with the need to assess these new technologies and applications to power those technologies. The main objective of this paper is for software engineers, IT executives and others who are considering migration as a solution to their business challenges