[Linux-aus] Australian Government Desktop Standard mandates OOXML due to lack of input to the contrary

[Tom Sparks]

--- On Fri, 21/1/11, Daniel Black <daniel.subs at internode.on.net> wrote:

> From: Daniel Black <daniel.subs at internode.on.net>
> Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Australian Government Desktop Standard mandates OOXML due to lack of input to the contrary
> To: linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au
> Received: Friday, 21 January, 2011, 8:03 AM
> 
> For those in government the senior officer John Sheridan in
> charge of the 
> common operating policy was blogging about the lack of
> input.
> 
> http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/2010/08/05/lessons-learnt/
> 
> It was also clear from a talk in December 2010 that there
> was an intent for 
> multi vendor support.
> http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/files/2010/12/John-Sheridan-Press-Club-7-
> Dec-2010.pdf

it good they were thinking of tri-platforming

we still have the paper wasted with pdf forms that have to print out and faxed


tom_a_sparks
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