Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jan 2006 22:22 UTC, submitted by Andy Updegrove
Massachusetts has named an acting chief information officer, and the state is 'on track' to use OpenDocument-based desktop software next year, a spokesman for the commonwealth's governor said Thursday. Bethann Pepoli has been appointed acting CIO of the state's Information Technology Division by Thomas Trimarco, the state's secretary of administration and finance, according to Eric Fehrnstrom, communications director at Gov. Mitt Romney's office.
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Member since:2005-07-06
You completely miss the point. It is about getting a file format that any Office application can read/write, that the file can still be usable during decade. Try to open a Word 95 doc with Microsoft Office 2003: you will have a great chance to not be able to do. ODF is about avoiding that scenario.
Edited 2006-01-08 20:24
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2005-10-19
"Right a OSS advocate trying to force his choice of documents without reasonable studies on what would be best for the Peoples Socialist Republic of Massachusets."
Massachusets is going to be remembered either as forward thinking early adopters, or a ship of fools. Either way, it's going to be entertaining to watch it unfold.