The Best of Both Worlds – The Open Source Strategy of the German Federal Administration Dr. Barbara Held Federal Ministry of the Interior The German Government‘s Co-ordination and Advisory Board for IT in the Federal Administration (KBSt) Washington, D.C. – March 15, 2004

Basics of strategy System security  secure communication  secure operation Software diversity + independence from individual software manufacturers  Open Source Software  commercial products Interoperability  Open Standards

© Dr. Barbara Held, Federal Ministry of the Interior, 2004 OSS strategy Support of selected (pilot)-projects/migrations in different institutions through the Agency for Security in Information Technology (BSI) Realization of applications, which are not available at the market, through the BSI Methodological support through Guidelines and Papers published by the KBSt (f.e. migrations guide, GPL for administrations) Procurement policy Four pillars:

© Dr. Barbara Held, Federal Ministry of the Interior, 2004 (Pilot) projects Work in progress... German Bundestag (Parliament) Federal Commissioner of Data Privacy Federal Office of Food and Agriculture State Department (Embassy Network) Departement of Justice BSTU (2.500 clients)

© Dr. Barbara Held, Federal Ministry of the Interior, 2004 Strategic projects Work in progress... „Kroupware“ for OSS Egypt (Ägypten) - Kmail for S/MIME Erposs – Desktop for OSS Replacement for ADS Security features (f.e. SINA-Boxes)

© Dr. Barbara Held, Federal Ministry of the Interior, 2004 Migration guide: project goals A technical feasibility study on the use of alternative products on the basis of commercial and Open Source Software An analysis of the economic feasibility of the long-term use of OSS under the special boundary conditions that exist in public administration Technical recommendations for possible and feasible migration strategies and paths Strategic recommendations for reducing current manufacturer dependence with the continued use of Microsoft products

© Dr. Barbara Held, Federal Ministry of the Interior, 2004 Close to downloads of the German version from the KBSt-Website More than downloads of the English language version Approximately copies of the book sold Translation into Spanish and Polish Success story: Migration guide: reception I

© Dr. Barbara Held, Federal Ministry of the Interior, 2004 Update will include Windows XP and followers Special attention on MS Office 2003 Chapter on costs of migration will be „relaunched“ and become more userfriendly Online updates chapter by chapter via the KBSt-website (starting March 2004) Version 2.0 planned for End of 2004 Work in progress... Migration guide: outlook

© Dr. Barbara Held, Federal Ministry of the Interior, 2004 Regulations for a non-discriminative public procurement Cooperation contract with IBM (2002) – favourable tendering conditions, common projects, and OSS training Microsoft – new model for enterprise licences (2003) Contracts and partnerships Procurement policy

Dr. Barbara Held Federal Ministry of the Interior Co-ordinating and Advisory Agency of the Federal Government for Information Technology in the Federal Administration (KBSt) web: Thank you for your attention!