1. Free-Market Dance.
- Author
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Hayes, Frank
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RECORDS management , *INFORMATION services , *COMPUTER software , *COMPUTER systems , *INFORMATION technology , *COMPUTER industry - Abstract
This article focuses on the conflict between Microsoft Corp. (MC) and the state of Massachusetts. Massachusetts has decided that its official format for internal documents will be OpenDocument, an extensible markup language standard from the OASIS consortium. MC does not want to add this format to Microsoft Office. As a result, Massachusetts state agencies will soon begin to migrate from Microsoft Office to applications that support OpenDocument. And MC is complaining that it is being unfairly excluded from Massachusetts' information technology buying decisions.
- Published
- 2005