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"What then does open computing mean to governments - and what might it be worth considering when specifying requirements? Simply put – adopt open standards to avoid being locked-in to any one IT vendor, ensure the software you use fully implements these open standards, and consider open source alongside closed source software based on functionality, proven maturity, availability and cost of support, and value for money."

Tags: OB, open source, standards, government on 2009-03-04 -All Annotations (0) -About

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"The financial downturn, momentum from the private sector, and a new Web-savvy administration have come together to create the perfect climate for government adoption of cloud computing, said software as a service vendors, federal information technology purchasers, and others at a cloud-computing conference here Wednesday."

Tags: OB, cloud, government on 2009-02-26 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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"So the weekly chat is skipping TV entirely and going straight from radio to YouTube. The address (which will still be broadcast over the radio) is usually only about four minutes long, a perfect length for YouTube."

Tags: OB, government, web2.0, Obama on 2008-11-14 and saved by 4 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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"In view of the news that Microsoft Office 2007’s upcoming service pack will add support for ODF 1.1 to the product, including the ability to make ODF the default format, I think it is now time to again advocate that state, local, and national government agencies move all their data into the vendor-neutral ODF format."

Tags: OB, ODF, government on 2008-06-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

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