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- Why Massachusetts' Peter Quinn quit
- In this interview with Peter Quinn, the former CIO of Mass., who led the effort to adopt ODF and cut Microsoft Office, Groklaw asks what forced him out and what Microsoft had to do with it. Here's the top of the interview: PJ: What was the last straw that made...
- Tags: Was it Pacheco, information technology, Peter Quinn
- Blog posts 2006-01-24
- Politics and the perversion of standards
- Politics and the perversion of standardsThe testimony was amazing to listen toI think a key part of what Sen. Pacheco says is, "Here we are in October of 2005 [i]and there are still these concerns out there and still misunderstandings about what it is you're doing.[/i] And I go back...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Pacheco, OpenDocument Format, tire
- Discussion threads 2005-11-07
- Auditor inquisition could determine ODF's fate in Massachusetts
- At a hearing yesterday in room 437 of the venerable State House in Boston, Mass., a Commonwealth Senate oversight committee chaired by Senator Marc R. Pacheco opened yet another chapter in the ongoing saga of Massachusetts' Enterprise Technical Reference Model -- a blueprint for the state's information technology, authored by...
- Tags: ITD, OpenDocument Format, Pacheco
- Blog posts 2005-11-01
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- Is electronic tracking for students a good idea?
- A pilot program in Texas is testing GPS tracking devices to combat truancy in chronic offenders who might otherwise be sent to detention facilities. According to an article in the New York Times free registration required, not only does the program seem to be working, but also doesn't seem...
- Tags: Student, GPS, Leadership, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- China's own document standard: A clear message to US IT vendors?
- Fresh off giving a keynote speech in Beijing during an event that was organized by the Chinese National Institution of Standardization the CNIS, Andy Updegrove is now stateside with a report that the Chinese government has come up with its own document standard called the Uniform Office Format or UOF....
- Tags: Uniform Office Format, CNIS, Office 2.0, Government, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Open Source, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- China's own document standard: A clear message to US IT vendors?
- Fresh off giving a keynote speech in Beijing during an event that was organized by the Chinese National Institution of Standardization the CNIS, Andy Updegrove is now stateside with a report that the Chinese government has come up with its own document standard called the Uniform Office Format or UOF....
- Tags: General, Open Source, IT Management, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Government, Office 2.0, Berlind, CNIS, Uniform Office Format
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- College loans data lost, no misuse
- UPS lost a computer tape with information about 180,000 college student loans, the Nebraska-based loan company said recently, but there's no indication that the data has been misused, AP reports. The tape contained information of some 188,000 college students from Colorado and elsewhere was part of a UPS shipment...
- Tags: tape
- Blog posts 2006-08-03
- Mass. switch to OpenDoc illegal, charges state Sen.
- The Massachusetts state senate is pressuring Gov. Mitt Romney's administration to postpone its big switch to Open Document Format, the Boston Globe reports. Accusing former adminstration officials of cramming the changeover down employees' throats, state Sen. Marc R. Pacheco issued a committee report that found officials" did not pursue this...
- Tags: Finance Secretary Eric Kriss, Secretary Eric Kriss
- Blog posts 2006-07-05
- OpenDocument News: Wordperfect ships sans ODF, ex-MA CIO interviewed
- There's a little bit of news on the OpenDocument Format ODF front. According to eWeek, a new version of Wordperfect has shipped but without ODF support (despite the company's prior statements that it's behind the XML-based productivity suite document format). ...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-01-24
- Mass. to stay the OpenDocument course despite CIO's departure
- OASIS general counsel Andy Updegrove blogs: Only a few blog entries ago it was my sad lot to report that Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn had resigned, leaving the fate of his effort to mandate use of the OpenDocument format ODF hanging in the air. Tonight, I'm pleased to...
- Tags: Peter Quinn, OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-01-04
- Massachusetts open source fight becomes partisan
- Is the battle over the OpenDocument format in Massachusetts becoming a partisan battle? If it is, Microsoft is allied to the Democrats. As all open source aficionados know Massachusetts has become the epicenter in the battle for open document formats. If the state mandates use of OpenDocument, starting in January,...
- Tags: William Galvin, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-11-27
- Politics and the perversion of standards
- Sometimes, fact is just a better read than fiction. I promise you, if you have any interest in technology standards ....any interest..-- or if you have been paying any attention to the OpenDocument Format ODF saga as it unfolds in Massachusetts -- that the word for...
- Tags: Linda Hamel, ITD, transcription, OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2005-11-07
- Mass. bill endangers OpenDocument decision
- Mass. bill endangers OpenDocument decisionHere are some of the members of task forceBill Gates,Steve Ballmer& Co.You can't deny itMicrosoft know the right people to send the brown envelopes to.Gee how much you wanna bet that...Marc Pacheco wouldn't be saying anything if the IT dept decided to "standardize" solely on Microsoft...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Multiformat, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument decision, task force, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-03
- Bill drops bomb on OpenDocument Format in Massachusetts
- This is relatively late breaking news and more details won't be known until tomorrow. Two days after a Senate oversight committee in Massachusetts (1) questioned the authority of the state's IT department ITD to standardize on formats for storing public documents and (2) demanded that state officials take more...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2005-11-02
- Is the OpenDocument Format strategically better for the disabled? Maybe.
- At a hearing on Monday, Oct 31, 2005, a Massachusetts state Senate oversight committee began what could best be referred to as a process of discovery to determine, amongst other things, whether the Commonwealth's Information Technology Division's ITD decision to standardize on the OpenDocument...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2005-11-02
- Auditor inquisition could determine ODF's fate in Massachusetts
- Auditor inquisition could determine ODF's fate in MassachusettsGood for MA.The good news is:Ultimately, after the processes have been vetted, and the costs and benefits are better understood both short and long term, and those with disabilities have been assuaged perhaps by more inclusion and different deployment dates, a decision on...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OPEN SOURCE, open-source community, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
- Mass. officials criticize OpenDocument decision
- Mass. officials criticize OpenDocument decisionInterestingSo I guess this is far from over.Finally some common sense...My rep said his counterparts in MA were all over this and were about to launch "Operation Word Document Format". Microsoft has annointed these reps the title "Gang of Three" and they are charged with hitting...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, Word processors, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., rep, American Politics, OOo
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
- Hidden OpenDocument agenda uncovered in Massachusetts
- As more news gets out about how the Massachusetts decision to standardize on OASIS' OpenDocument Format ODF as the statewide standard for creating, editing, storing and retrieving public documents isn't quite over yet, word is that the focus of this Monday's hearing by a state Senate oversight committee will be...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2005-10-27
- InfoWeek: OpenDocument tangled in MA political showdown
- A story in InformationWeek is the first official news report offering some of the details behind a hearing that has been rushed onto Massachusetts' state Senate's docket regarding a recent decision by the Commonwealth's Information Technology Department ITD to standardize on the OpenDocument Format ODF for the creation, storage,...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2005-10-26
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