Postmortem:
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Microsoft's damage-control messaging is that this as a cost risk and a
political situation:
"I think it would be pretty risky for the state of Massachusetts to go
in a direction like this without a clear look at the costs first,” said
Alan Yates, general manager of the Office division at Microsoft.
He also suggested that the proposal, which was produced by the state’s
chief information officer, was the product of “a very political
situation,” though he declined to elaborate. Massachusetts was the only
state to hold out against a settlement of the US anti-trust case against
Microsoft.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/80033a76-1a71-11da-b7f5-00000e2511c8.html
Bob Sutor at IBM:
"To be clear, there is nothing preventing Microsoft and others from
implementing and supporting the OASIS OpenDocument format. This should
not be looked as "against" anyone but rather "for" real open standards
created in a community way in standards organizations."
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog_comments.jspa?blog=384&entry=94058&ca=drs-bl
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News Coverage:
LXer Open Source Newswire
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/42442/index.html
Financial Times
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e8fc5cce-1a85-11da-b7f5-00000e2511c8.html
by Richard Waters
Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2005/08/31/afx2200406.html
The Boston Globe
pending
The New York Times
pending
ZDNet UK
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/windows/0,39020396,39215912,00.htm
Tom Espiner
ZDNet
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5845451.html
by Martin Lamonica
All Headline News
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/2251173842
by Hector Duarte, Jr.
LinuxInsider:
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/BPtKifgJh2Y3bJ/Massachusetts-to-Ditch-Microsoft-Software.xhtml
AFX newswire (based on FT)
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