Comments on: Massachusetts CIO quits

Louis Gutierrez says he's leaving due to lack of tech funding; move not expected to affect OpenDocument policy.

[tech_junky]

OpenOffice

"...will not derail the state's policy of adopting OpenDocument as the state's default document format" - it might not stop them from moving to OOo, but I don't doubt all the Microsoft dogs hounding him is part of his reason for resigning.

as for the MS Office plugin for OpenDocs, I suppose it's getting state employees to move to OpenDoc format so a good portion of their documents are already converted by the time they finally get settled into OOo. On the bad side though, it could be to simply keep them using MS Office just a bit longer.

[herby67]

Judging

The guy cited specifically budget problems as his reason for departing. He said nothing about MS dogs, so I don't see where you got that idea.
If anything, the situation would indicate that the costs of migraging to open formats are more extensive than planned.

[mikey999]

Seen it!

I have done some contract work for various IT Divisions in the state, it is horrible the way they are funded. At times working with 5 and 6 year old versions of software in bad need of upgrade!

[solrosenberg]

Taxachusetts

Typical Taxachusetts bureaucrat: give me more money for more boondoggles.

[InformedObserver]

Sometimes there's more than meets the eye...

www.statehousenews.com/reports/itlist.pdf