> A Microsoft Office purchase is almost certainly *statewide*. Converting > documents to OpenDocument is *department by department*.
What if they take the *statewide* $$ allocated for future purchases of M$ Office and /give/ that to all the little departments to pay for the transition? > The worst part is that if MA can just stick to its guns long enough to > do the first round of OpenOffice conversions, Microsoft will magically > produce a version of Office that reads OpenDocument. I think I read somewhere that lots of vendors were behind the push for OpenDocument there. Taxachussets is known to have 2 of the most liberal senators in Congress (E. Kennedy and J. Kerry). If the non-M$ vendors cannot win in this little state, they can't win anywhere. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
