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Another examples of why MS is FUD'ing about desperately...

http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/44278-1.html

"A new software acquisition and development program is focusing on
boosting efficiency and decreasing lifecycle costs for the Air Force
through the reuse of applications’ components.

The strategy, said Charles Riechers, the Air Force’s principal deputy
assistant secretary for acquisition, is to “encourage the use of open
standards, open data interfaces and best-of-breed open source software
solutions.”

“We are not mandating either open or proprietary solutions,” Riechers said
last week at a luncheon in Vienna, Va., sponsored by the Northern Virginia
chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.
“But if you’re not using open standards, you have to tell me that and there
better be a damn good reason why not. Proprietary technology is okay as
long as it based on an informed decision.” "


That's becoming a std gov statement.

I know that the above i.e. "if you’re not using open standards, you
have to tell me that and there better be a damn good reason why not."
is becoming the std gov response on both sides of the pond wrt the peopel I
deal wth.


Which is where ODF comes in.........


Adam

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