Graham Lauder wrote:
swhiser wrote:
Well caught, Graham. It makes my year:
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/42442/index.html
Cool Sam,
That explains it nicely. I'll link to your article in my Blog.
Better than wading for an hour through all the Govt-ese.
Only thing, your article says submissions in by 5 sept 07.. I think
it should be '05.
THANK YOU for pointing that out, Graham. It's noted on LXer now.
Actually, I recommend the document for a good bedside read...not
Gov-esqu at all. Only 18 pp. And an excellent, disciplined exec
summary of an enterprise SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) vision with
XML and open standards as the centerpiece. This kind of example is
going to pull MBA's into State government.
Additionally, the document shows some standards areas which are
important and which are only very early in their development. This
therefore is a terrific roadmap for STUDENTS TO IDENTIFY INTERESTING
TECHNOLOGY AREAS THAT WILL PROVIDE GOOD AS WELL AS STIMULATING CAREER PATHS.
XML, XSLT, XQuery, XPath
You heard it here.
-Sam
In the "between the lines" dept, what does this say about "Shared
Source"? IIRC Mass was one of the first to be party to that initiative.
Heh Open is open, Shared is closed by any measure.... except Redmonds
Nothing.
In between the lines, this gives SO/OOo a shot. Workplace will be there
no doubt because they are a Notes shop, but we have a snowballs chance.
The document is very disciplined on staying focused on standards and
leaves out deliberately and necessarily any commitments or
recommendations about IMPLIMENTATIONS, about VENDORS and PRODUCTS. If
MS Office 2003.5 were to include OpenDocument as the default, then that
product would be in the running in the State's migration.
MASS and the shared source commitment is easy to read too much into.
Remember that MS has been the only game in town...uuntil recently. And
MassGov IT are good and want to see how bad the code really is. They
really value knowing the vulnerabilities...because you can't tell from
reading the patch announcement list. That, of course, is the tip of the
iceberg.
-Sam
Cheers
Yo
Graham Lauder wrote:
Massachusetts has published it's document format policies.
Approved formats : txt, pdf and OASIS Open Document
http://www.mass.gov/Aitd/
No mention of .rtf or .doc
Hot damn!!
Submissions close 5 Sept '05
Cheers
Yo
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