A big no. They still rely on "consultants", most of them are connected with "big wig" consulting outfits that in all likelihood are also either gold or platinum partners of M$ Phils. High percentage that these "consultants" will be able to influence decision makers if ever they will decide to have a standard document format for mainstream agency use.
According to my experience working for a reseller, a high percentage of the LGUs, NGOs, and Gov agencies request for quote and purchase M$ products. Why? Out of the 50 people I talked to regarding their chosen solution, 30 answered its what their consultants recommended them, 12 answered that they are not familiar with OpenOffice and other opensource apps (linux included) and they dont have the skills to deal with a new platform (locked in), 8 simply are hardline M$ users. My petty interview says big regarding the influence of consultants. On 8/24/07, Jose P. Suria Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just curious. Does anyone in congress or the House have any credible IT > background? Enough to come up with such decisions? > > On 8/23/07, Marvin Pascual < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I am not writing this e-mail to promote not to buy the Microsoft > > Office product or fight against how Microsoft do their business but > > rather to ask you disseminate the information to everyone especially > > to policy makers or people who are usually been consulted for I.T. > > standards in our country that making the MS-OOXML as an ISO standard > > is like committing ourselves to patronize to use a proprietary and > > buggy format. > > > > I am attaching a presentation made by Anand Vaidya about the facts on > > MS-OOXML. You may want to use it as your reference on why we don't > > want to have a proprietary and buggy ISO standard document format. > > > > For more information, please visit http://www.odfalliance.org/ website. > > > > May the source be with you... > > > > Marvin > > > > _________________________________________________ > > Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] ( http://cdo.linux.org.ph) > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > > -- > [Randomizing] > ( http://mikosuria.co.nr) > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________ > Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (http://cdo.linux.org.ph) > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- "A dog that has no bite, barks loudest." Registered Linux User #400165 http://contour.runhosting.com - free host http://baudizm.blogsome.com http://phossil.ifastnet.com Subscribed to: LARTC, Open-ITLUG, PRUG, KLUG, linuxusersgroup, sybase.public.ase.linux SHA256: 857dd62339c9fe27460b725747dfe25d5612933f7d879c35fb0cba2dadaf972f
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