Peter Quinn resigns
December 29, 2005 Posted by mitch | technology | 1 Comment
Its a sad day... Peter Quinn, CIO of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is resigning effective on the 12th of January. Seems the personal attacks hes had in the media and else where, when politicians decide to play dirty, have over whelmed him. Its horrible. Why must we result to such tactics? Is Microsoft this affraid of the results of one state switching to a format (their welcome to support I might add...) thats free for *everyone* to use? I really do try to be fair, even though I'm not a fan boy of Microsoft by any sense of the word, about the goings on in the IT world. But, honestly... this all started when the commonwealth stated that Microsofts 'Open' XML Document format did not meet the requirements they setup. They even went out of their way to answer Microsofts question about what they needed to do to be considered. Since then... Microsoft's kinda half-assed their way to meeting the requirements... tring to meet them by the letter of it, not the spirit of it. The commonwealth saw this and luckily they worded their requirements such that its hard to streach those two apart. So they didn't cave to the presure. After all, I really don't think its much to ask Microsoft, if they want to compete they need to meet the same requirements our current format choice does. They really don't even need to open their own format up... for their software to be considered when procurment starts, all they need to do is support the ODF standard(if they refuse to open up their own format to the requirements set forth). So, when the technology wrangling didn't work so well... then the political games started. And spats with the local media, which crafted personal attacks on Mr. Quinn. I don't have kids yet, but this sounds an awfull lot like a kid kicking and screaming when their mother took something away from them because it wasn't theirs. Is this really the grown up world we live in? Doesn't anyone believe in honor anymore? Or do we all just follow the money?
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