George LaVenture
Standards and Innovation Chair
GLaVenture@Trinity-Inc.net
(508) 481-6375 IAMCP-US
(508) 485-8842 Trinity Consulting
Hope all is well.
Thought I’d give you two quick updates this month.
High Noon in Texas
As we reported last month the Texas State Committee on
Government Reform met 9 April to consider electronic document policy.
IAMCP – US President, Bill Breslin, a Texas native and Vice
President of InSource Technologies in Houston, TX, joined a Panel of Experts
including Stuart McKee, National Technology Officer for Microsoft, and Chris J.
Katopis, Director, Initiative for Software Choice who testified before the
Government Reform Committee of the Texas House of Representatives in support of
open XML.
The ODF side presented Andrew Updegrove, an attorney acting on
his own behalf, Rob Weir, Software Architect of IBM, Jeremy Allison, Lead
Developer for the Samba Team and a Google employee, Doug Johnson, Corporate
Standards for Global Government Strategy for Sun, and Marino Marcich, Executive
Director of the ODF Alliance.
The hearings will next move to the Texas Senate.
Our position continues to be that any limitation of choice in
our selection of tools to implement solutions for our clients is
anti-competitive. We especially take exception to anti-competitive practices
using taxpayer dollars.
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If you
believe that choice is important to you and your business, and that limiting
public sector choice is a slippery slope that could escalate into other
areas, please let me know. We’d love to have your help with local policy
issues.
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Posted
May 01 2008, 07:31 PM
by
nkeith