"I'm very sorry to report that Peter Quinn, the CIO of Massachusetts who has been at the center of a controversy relating to his efforts at the Information Technology Division to adopt the OpenDocument format for the use of the Commonwealth's Executive Agencies, has resigned."
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Member since:a global coroporation - sun or apple - i can't remember - once banned the use of powerpoint. transparencies and paper and pens were handed out. productivity went up.
You're "misremembering" the issue. First, it was Sun.
We had 12.9 gigabytes of PowerPoint slides on our network. And I thought, What a huge waste of corporate productivity. So we banned it. And we've had three unbelievable record-breaking fiscal quarters since we banned PowerPoint. Now, I would argue that every company in the world, if it would just ban PowerPoint, would see their earnings skyrocket. Employees would stand around going, "What do I do? Guess I've got to go to work. -- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems. [SJM, 03Aug97. Keith Bostic bostic@bostic.com, QOTD, 06Aug97.]
Second, McNealy didn't conclude that productivity increased. He merely commented that they had 3 consecutive record-breaking quarters. Which I would argue had nothing to do with banning Powerpoint at all. It was the dotcom era. McNealy could have sold dog-crap, as long as it had the Sun server logo attached to it. As proof, look at Sun today. Having OpenOffice at its disposal isn't preventing Sun from practically being delisted from the stock exchange, in its precipitous slide into "mediocrity".
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a global coroporation - sun or apple - i can't remember - once banned the use of powerpoint. transparencies and paper and pens were handed out. productivity went up.
in my experience in "business" - doing the right thing is not teh same as doing well in business structures. use MS. talk the jargon. and people love it.
in fact "technologies" such as powerpoint, excel macros, and overly rich document serve nothing but to celebrate medicority. mediocre people feel better when they can produce fancy excel sheets and use ms exchange as a filesore or documen management system.
crazy.