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Monday, January 30 2006 @ 08:45 PM EST
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News from Massachusetts,
where the Romney administration has just announced Peter Quinn's successor as CIO for the Commonwealth, as of February 6, Louis Gutierrez. I'm hearing from folks who know that it's a wonderful choice.
Administration and Finance Secretary Thomas Trimarco today appointed Gutierrez as chief information officer at the Information Technology Division, which oversees Executive Branch IT operations and planning. Gutierrez is chief technology strategist at UMass Medical School's Commonwealth Medicine Division. Before that, Gutierrez was, according to the press release, "chief information officer for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest state secretariat with 23,000 staff and more than $12 billion in annual spending. While at HHS Gutierrez led the development and implementation of the state's Virtual Gateway, an online portal that integrated the web presence of 16 agencies into a user-friendly format that improved service delivery and reduced costs." He has also worked in senior tech positions at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and the Federal Reserve system and he's been CIO for the Commonwealth before. I like this sentence from the press release:
Gutierrez will be responsible for overseeing the final stages of implementation of the state's new Open Document format proposal, to go into effect in January 2007. Romney is serious. I told you, did I not? And to get a measure of the man, notice this quotation from Gutierrez in the press release: "The Virtual Gateway is an example of how state government computing can be transformed through the application of open standards that interoperate with many kinds of technology and vendors," said Gutierrez. That should satisfy everyone. Reduced costs is good. Someone who knows how to implement interopereability. Good track record. Knows the tech. What's not to like? Unless you're Microsoft. Here's what they were spinning just before the announcement: Microsoft’s McKee ... said that Microsoft might not be excluded from Massachusetts’ open-standards business after all.
“The new interim CIO is crafting an additional policy,” McKee said.
[The new interim CIO] Pepoli, who declined an interview request, denied that such a change was occurring.
Massachusetts “is not ‘crafting an additional policy’ in regard to the OpenDocument initiative,” Pepoli said in an e-mail. “We are proceeding with implementation of the OpenDocument Format standard.”
But could Microsoft work within the OpenDocument standard? The company doesn’t seem to think so but is unsure, McKee said. The two systems should be able to communicate with one another and exchange data, although that may require additional applications, McKee said.
“The word ‘compatible’ is kind of tricky,” he said. “What they’ve asked for in their standard is that the default save-as must be in the ODF format. So what they’ve asked us to do is to have our product save into a format that, frankly, we feel is inferior.” Heh heh. I found that priceless stuff from a link on Andy Updegrove's blog. Read on for the complete press release, minus contact info, which is for the media, and they have it already.
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ROMNEY ADMINISTRATION APPOINTS CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER (1-30-06)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Executive Department
January 30, 2006
ROMNEY ADMINISTRATION APPOINTS CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
Administration and Finance Secretary Thomas Trimarco today named Louis Gutierrez as chief information officer of the Information Technology Division (ITD), the department that oversees information technology operations and planning for executive branch agencies. The appointment is effective on February 6, 2006.
Gutierrez will be responsible for overseeing the final stages of implementation of the state's new Open Document format proposal, to go into effect in January 2007.
"Information technology is an important tool that helps to deliver a wide range of government services both quickly and cost effectively", said Trimarco. "Louis Gutierrez has a distinguished record in both the private and public sectors and brings a keen understanding of information technology's mission and its potential."
Bethann Pepoli, who has served as the department's acting chief information officer, will become deputy chief information officer. Gutierrez will leave his current position as chief technology strategist at the Commonwealth Medicine Division of UMass Medical School in order to accept the appointment. While at UMass Medical, Gutierrez directed a team that provided technology support during Operation Helping Hand, the state assistance effort for Hurricane Katrina evacuees who came to Massachusetts.
Prior to working at UMass Medical Gutierrez was chief information officer for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest state secretariat with 23,000 staff and more than $12 billion in annual spending. While at HHS Gutierrez led the development and implementation of the state's Virtual Gateway, an online portal that integrated the web presence of 16 agencies into a user-friendly format that improved service delivery and reduced costs.
"The Virtual Gateway is an example of how state government computing can be transformed through the application of open standards that interoperate with many kinds of technology and vendors," said Gutierrez. "As technology continues to evolve there remain substantial opportunities to transform services and a need to plan for the long-term future of technology-infused operations."
A former principal at the Exeter Group, an IT strategy and integration services firm, Gutierrez has held a number of top IT positions, including chief information officer at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and deputy director for technology planning and standards for the Federal Reserve system. He is a former Commonwealth of Massachusetts chief information officer.
A graduate of Harvard College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, Gutierrez lives in Arlington with his wife and their two daughters.
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| Authored by: PolR on Monday, January 30 2006 @ 08:58 PM EST |
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| Authored by: PolR on Monday, January 30 2006 @ 09:01 PM EST |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 30 2006 @ 09:04 PM EST |
If Quinn had done such a bad job, and didn't let other departments know etc,
etc, and there was so many problems with ODF, thus resulting in the senate
enquiry, then why is MA still going ahead with it?
This question needs to be answered - why did this senator become involved in it?
And at who's bequest? Was there a conflict of interest? And he should be
punished for what ended up as being a witch hunt and harassment against Peter
Quinn?
Dave[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: The Mad Hatter r on Monday, January 30 2006 @ 09:30 PM EST |
This is an un-ambiguous statement by the governor's office as to their take on
Open Standards - 100% for them. I have a feeling that we haven't heard the last
of the fud, but someone with this sort of resume will be a hard target to hit.
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Wayne
http://urbanterrorist.blogspot.com/
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 30 2006 @ 09:32 PM EST |
Gutierrez answered his phone and immediately recognized Charlie Baker's
voice on the other end. For three years as CIO of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, Gutierrez had reported to Baker, who was the state's former
secretary for administration and finance...Baker gave Gutierrez a brief rundown
on the situation at Brookline, Mass.-based Harvard Pilgrim
He had become
deputy director of Federal Reserve Information Technology at the Federal Reserve
Bank just six months ago, after nearly 20 years of working his way up the IT
career ladder—from programming and systems analyst positions at IBM in the early
1980s to CIO of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1996. He'd gone back to
school in 1990 and earned a master's of science in management, specializing in
information technology and finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Now 40,
why would he even consider leaving the Federal Reserve?.... CIO :) Brian S. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: tredman on Monday, January 30 2006 @ 09:46 PM EST |
Do we have any background on his first departure as CIO of the Commonwealth?
Was it just a change of administration?
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Tim
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| Authored by: Dijital on Tuesday, January 31 2006 @ 01:22 AM EST |
In the washingtontechnology.com article PJ linked too, Stuart McKee states:
“The word ‘compatible’ is kind of tricky,” he said. “What they’ve asked for in
their standard is that the default save-as must be in the ODF format. So what
they’ve asked us to do is to have our product save into a format that, frankly,
we feel is inferior.”
I use OOo 2 at home and MS Word 2002 at work, and they both provide users the
option to change the default Save As document format type. And I'm quite sure
that Office 2003 does it as well. In other words, MS is not being 'forced'. This
is not about being 'forced' to do anything. This is about a company that has the
time, money and programming talent to incorporate ODF into their products, but
simply refuses to because they see it as some type of 'stealing their bread and
butter' type of situation.
Perhaps Mr. McKee should learn more about his company's product(s) before making
such irrelevant statements.
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- Armando -
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 31 2006 @ 02:48 AM EST |
This "default save as" defense sucks.
It looks like they never heard of configuration files?
Setting the default format during install is a piece of cake.
Do you want ODF as default?
Yes
No
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| Authored by: luvr on Tuesday, January 31 2006 @ 03:00 AM EST |
Microsoft’s McKee is quoted as saying:
"So what they’ve asked us
to do is to have our product save into a format that, frankly, we feel is
inferior."
Same old pattern: Open Document Format is
"inferior," so if Microsoft is ever going to implement it,
you bet they will add their proprietary "improvements" to
it!
Reinforces my feelings that I don't want Microsoft to go anywhere
near Open Document Format! [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 31 2006 @ 03:27 AM EST |
"So what they’ve asked us to do is to have our product save into a format
that, frankly, we feel is inferior."
Good, then it shouldn't be too hard to implement for you.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: ragarth on Tuesday, January 31 2006 @ 04:15 AM EST |
Hey Hey, first comment. ^^
Honestly I'm quite pleased that MS is making such a huffaw over accepting ODF.
My big fear here would be MS 'accepting' the ODF and on the next release making
enough changes in their support of it to break other programs that don't support
MS-ODF, thereby creating two tangent lines of development for the format. If MS
did this, then their superior userbase to other programs would cause a serious
developmental problem, spelling out a possible hijack of ODF for them to add
weight to ODF development and later claim 'See? It's inferior.' and force a
switch back to MS .doc simply becouse they made it easier on their userbase to
use.
One can only hope that MS never accepts ODF for this reason.
*puts on tinfoil hat*[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 31 2006 @ 08:40 AM EST |
"“The word ‘compatible’ is kind of tricky,” he said. “What they’ve asked
for in their standard is that the default save-as must be in the ODF format. So
what they’ve asked us to do is to have our product save into a format that,
frankly, we feel is inferior.”"
It is only tricky to them because they want to add some microsoft bloat to the
standard because they think it is inferrior to their product.
go suck an egg microsoft - open source software is much much much better than
your crap you are spewing out of redmond.
my wife and daughter think so and so do my friends who are an accountant and a
lawyer.
so go blow your smoke somewhere else - we are talking open standards here not a
business model. you know open standards where the end user doesn't have to pay
a microsoft tax to be able to get to THEIR data.
sorry for the attitude but this just goes to show how fricken smug they are and
I hope they die a slow and painful death. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 31 2006 @ 09:15 AM EST |
What about "Are you sure you want to save as .doc? Your document would then
be saved in a non-standard undocumented format and some people would be unable
to read it at all without paying a mobster"[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: seanlynch on Tuesday, January 31 2006 @ 09:23 AM EST |
Microsoft stockholders should all take note of the Microsoft executive's
statement:
' “We are proceeding with implementation of the
OpenDocument Format standard.” But could Microsoft work within the
OpenDocument standard? The company doesn’t seem to think so but is unsure, McKee
said. '
Once again Microsoft is admitting that it
cannot implement a simple standard file format conversion! This is like a Ford
or Toyota executive admitting they might have trouble finding someone within
their car companies that knows how to do a brake job!
Microsoft has had a
series of well documented failures in the last few years. The Wall Street
Journal documented how the Longhorn project had to be completely scrapped and
re-written from the ground up because the programming culture within Microsoft
was incapable of working on such a complicated task.
Microsoft never brought
a pure 64-bit version of any of its operating systems to market for the Intel
'Itanium' platform. This failure led directly to lower sales for Intel Itanium
chips and severely hurt investors at Intel, HP, and sgi, (Itanium’s three main
financial backers) resulting in losses for many investors. Compare this to the
fact that there was a version of Linux for the Itanium platform released before
the Itanium chips started coming off the assembly line! The volunteers of the
Linux community used an emulator provided by Intel and HP to complete the work
before the first production chips were even made.
Here we see a Microsoft
executive admitting that he is unsure that Microsoft would be able to implement
a "save as" function for a document format that is fully open with a documented
standard implementation available. Remember that multiple ODF implementations
already have been completed. Some of these by open source volunteer
projects.
I think investors should really think long and hard about any
dollars they have invested in the World's largest software company. Microsoft
has thousands of skilled programmers, and billions of dollars in cash reserves.
Yet, if the executives at Microsoft feel that their company cannot accomplish
what volunteer coders working in their spare time can do, and the evidence of
the last few years shows that the company has repeatedly failed to even come
close to doing some of the basic things that these under funded volunteers have
accomplished, I would be very afraid of the future performance of any money
invested in Microsoft.
My opinion is based on the Microsoft executive’s
statement, and the recent performance of Microsoft in the technical matters
recalled above
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 01 2006 @ 04:57 PM EST |
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| Authored by: _Arthur on Wednesday, February 01 2006 @ 09:27 PM EST |
Massachusetts Gets New CIO to Oversee OpenDocument Migration
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/PcyY3MalFWm6hz/Massachusetts-
Gets-New-CIO-to-Oversee-OpenDocument-Migration.xhtml
Microsoft's efforts to make its products work with other platforms are being
viewed with skepticism -- which is not a surprise, given the company's
history, said Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle.
"A lot of the open-standards effort that's gone on in the past has been
driven
by anti-Microsoft sentiment," Enderle said. "That makes it inherently
difficult
for Microsoft to be viewed in the same way as some other software makers
who don't have the same history of proprietary format and market
dominance."
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