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Posted on 10/20/2003 6:33:04 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BOSTON -- With more than $32 billion in sales last year, Microsoft Corp. doesn't usually worry about losing one customer. But this one may be different.
In a memo sent last month, Massachusetts Administration and Finance Secretary Eric Kriss instructed the state's chief technology officer to adopt a policy of "open standards, open source" for all future spending on information technology.
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| Massachusetts Administration and Finance Secretary Eric Kriss instructed the state's chief technology officer to adopt a policy of "open standards, open source" for all future spending on information technology.
This guy must have not had any other way to get his name in the paper. |
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Feh. Another bureaucrat issues another memo advocating open standards in DP procurement. You'd think after 30 years of these memos, people would recognize this as the "motherhood" that it is. What government procurement shop has as its policy, "We want to be sure to lock ourselves in to one vendor?" If you said "none," you win.