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Story: Socitm names new president

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Wheels within wheels

Thanks for the links - fascinating...

Ingrid Marson's report was very interesting, and if anything MS have got much more desperate since 2005, although now their marketing department is pretending very hard to be 'friendly' with Open Source, always a sign of their classic 'Embrace, extend, extinguish' approach being brought into play.

The report from Computer Weekly was eye-opening too. Especially this direct quote from Socitm's new President:

"But it is not just Microsoft, it is our problem as well. We really needed to plan with Microsoft much earlier and lobby software suppliers to get their applications ready"

So, it's his job to 'plan with Microsoft' and to lobby the rest of the industry on Microsoft's behalf, it it?

Should Public Sector MoU's really contain this kind of stuff? Might explain the reluctance to release it I guess. Let's hope someone FOI's it...

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