On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:35 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > Thanks Ian. > > Sounds like good things could happen, but we're not home free yet.
No, but its progress. At the last meeting I had with The CEO and Director of infrastructure they were decidedly cool on doing anything at all. I doubt that this change is unrelated to the MPs signing the EDM. Its all down to politics in the end and we will keep the political pressure on. > The 12 > month delay, while probably unavoidable, is problematic. Delay of > evaluation has been an ongoing part of MS sales strategies, giving MS a > chance to force yet another report to be watered down or to have a chance > to circumvent the recommendations or even individual politicians. But delay can be bad for them too. BECTA advising schools not to upgrade to Vista or Office 2007 is not good news for MS either. > The OSS bill in the state of Oregon(?) a few years ago comes to mind as > an example: Delay until a back door can be found to get it off the > agenda. > > I don't get why MS is involved at all, it should be only the stakeholders > there at the table: > > "Following the outcome of discussions with Microsoft and a > range of stakeholders, Becta will produce a final report with > recommendations by January 2008." > - > http://news.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?cfid=718068&cftoken=938179e6164479e5-2AD6DC90-9933-B941-D05D6D6F8E222BEF&resID=28267&page=1658&catID=1633 > > If MS must interfere with the stakeholders, it would seem to be active > interference with fair trade and go against WTO rules for government > procurement and WTO rules regarding technical barriers to trade. You could E-mail the Chairman of BECTA and point out your concerns. BECTA addresses are [EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO is Stephen Crowne. It would be useful to get some international perspectives into BECTA ;-) > > At least include the 7 other 'vendors' to the same extent. i.e. Sun and > OpenOffice.org > > -Lars > Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Ensure access to your data now and in the future > http://opendocumentfellowship.org/about_us/contribute > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
