Peter Quinn Quotations

She's really developed her game this year and moved to the high post. She's developed her left hand and footwork. And she's fiercely competitive.

Over the last several months, we have been through some very difficult and tumultuous times. Many of these events have been very disruptive and harmful to my personal well being, my family and many of my closest friends. This is a burden I will no longer carry.

Microsoft has remade the desktop world, ... But if you've watched history, there's a slag heap of proprietary companies who have fallen by the wayside because they were stuck in their ways. Just look at the minicomputer business, for example. The world is about open standards and open source. I can't understand why anybody would want to continue making closed-format documents anymore.

We figure this is the best opportunity for people to get hands-on and get an opportunity to see what technologies are coming out.

We are not locking ourselves into any set of technologies, ... We're looking at a standard format. There are a number of technologies that can accommodate the format.

Even the smallest initiatives are being mitigated or stopped by some of the most unlikely and often uninformed parties...I view these circumstances as quite troubling because the good work laid out by the IT Commission is slowly being strangled and brought to a halt. And the last thing I can let happen is my presence be the major contributing factor marginalizing the good work of ITD and the entire IT community.

These discussions have centered on open formats, particularly as they relate to office documents, their importance for the current and future accessibility of government records, and the relative 'openness' of the format options available to us.

These discussions have centered on open formats particularly as they relate to office documents, their importance for the current and future accessibility of government records, and the relative

These discussions have centred on open formats particularly as they relate to office documents, their importance for the current and future accessibility of government records, and the relative 'openness' of the format options available to us.

We've had an active, ongoing conversation with Microsoft since January about this, and they've been open to hearing our position, ... But I don't know one way or the other how they're ultimately going to react to this. Also, this isn't just about Microsoft. We're focusing on the formats here, not necessarily the software. But wouldn't it be nice not to have to remake the systems?

This new draft version...identifies the newly ratified OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) as our standard for office documents.

Tower of Babel to an IT United Nations.

They did nothing to prevent this massive loss of life. None of this should be allowed to be swept under the carpet.

By adoption of a service oriented architecture focused on open standard technologies, the Commonwealth could be transformed from an IT tower of Babel to an IT United Nations,

It was hard earned, I'll tell you that. They played great defense and we played great defense. I guess we made one extra stop and one extra basket. I tell the girls that in Barre defense wins championships.

Agencies will need to develop phased migration plans with a target implementation date of 1 January 2007.

It's been a combination of people trying to do the FUD factor and people sometimes don't get it, ... We've said we're going to adopt a format approved by an international standards organization effective January 1, 2007. It's not anybody's technology. It's not procurement. It's a standard. There's nothing about open source or any of the rest of it.

government is creating history at a rapidly increasing rate, and all documents we save must be accessible to everybody, without having to use 'closed' software to open them now and in the future.