The Road Goes Ever On and On for Peter Quinn
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For the first time, to the best of my knowledge, Peter Quinn's still-evolving slide set on the OpenDocument Format (ODF) saga is available on line (in ODF, of course, as well as in PDF form).
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The presentation now available on line is somewhat poignant, in that most of the first 50 slides (out of 60) were all created back when Peter was flying high as the Massachusetts CIO, leading the charge of his Information Technology Division (ITD) into a brave new world of open systems based on open standards and open source. They describe the state of the Massachusetts IT infrastructure (or lack thereof) when Peter took over in 2003, and the "perfect storm" he encountered – a tight budget with worse expected to come, a new IT commission, and a new administration – and how he viewed it as an opportunity rather than a hurdle. In his words, "We had an opportunity that only comes around every 15 or 20 years to truly transform IT." Full Story |
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