And they keep trickling in - http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1800
Sam Hiser wrote:
Postmortem: ******************************************************************** 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 ******************************************************************** 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) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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