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Massachusetts' CIO Defends Move to OpenDocument

Posted by Zonk on from the back-off-stick-wavers dept.

Mark Brunelli writes "A public hearing concerning Massachusetts' plan to dump Microsoft for OpenDocument featured a fair share of controversy as the state's CIO tried to fight off naysayers. Linda Hamel, the general counsel for the Massachusetts Information Technology Department (ITD), suggested that groups that oppose the OpenDocument file format standard might be influenced by Microsoft." We reported on the bounce back against the OpenDocument move this past weekend.

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  1. Re:$50M verses $5M by YU+Nicks+NE+Way · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, OpenOffice.org does not run on "everything". It's a horrific resource pig, which will require significant hardware upgrades to run. By contrast, Microsoft Office runs on the hardware they already have.

  2. Re:$50M verses $5M by YU+Nicks+NE+Way · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I stopped reading when I read things like "preload [OpenOffice]; that is, after all, what Microsoft does." That's crap -- you can look for yourself and see that Office isn't preloaded.

    Once again, the Slashdolts are living in a fantasy world.