Acting MA CIO Appointed, ODF A Go

Andy Updegrove writes "Massachusetts has appointed ITD COO Beth Pepoli as the acting CIO of the Commonwealth. At the same time, the Governor's Communications Director, Eric Fehrnstrom, has made the clearest statement yet that it is ODF that the new CIO will be implementing: 'There have been no changes in the commonwealth's published OpenDocument rules, and we are still on track for a January 2007 implementation.' We reported on the resignation of Peter Quinn in December.

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[rmsnwbrdr]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1908369,00.as p David Coursey from EWeek has an interesting opinion piece on this subject. From the article- "Is it the responsibility of citizens to change what they're doing for the convenience of the government? Or should government seek to meet the needs of the largest number of its citizens?"

Re:Since when do states have CxOs?

[constantnormal]

Here's how Real America (and most likely Real Earth) is structured:

A Hierarchy of Control and Influence

      multinational corporations

      domestic corporations

      acolytes of Satan (a.k.a. professional lobbyists, and inherited political dynasties)

      national governments

      state governments

      local governments

      clueless masses

Subservient organizations mimic their superiors in this hierarchy.
Thus it's no surprise to see CIOs appearing in domestic corporations -- regardless of size -- and all forms of government.

I suspect that Hell itself is readying a CIO position to be occupied by Steve Balmer (the next time he indulges in a monkey dance, it may just do him in), who will preside over a vast array of Macs and Linux machines, with competent users who ignore his every decree to "standardize", and insist upon spreading entropy (disguised as diversity) throughout his realm.

The fictions taught in the schools of a system wherein the teeming masses apply their collective wisdom to designate those to temporarily rule over them have been completely up-ended in the fullness of time.

Political parties control the political process, and are given their marching orders (and income) by the professional lobbyist cadre, who are employees of larger, more sinister organizations.