From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Tue 21 Oct 2003 - 01:12:34 EDT
TOP STORIES FOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2003
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MASSACHUSETTS GOES OPEN SOURCE
Eric Kriss, administration and finance secretary for the State of
Massachusetts, has directed the state's chief technology officer to
choose open-source and open-standards technologies whenever possible.
Applications for which a cost-effective, open-source alternative is not
available can still be bought from vendors such as Microsoft that do
not allow access to their source code. Although Massachusetts's IT
budget is relatively small compared to other software buyers, some
analysts noted that the state's official policy against proprietary
software could spell trouble for companies like Microsoft down the
road. Laura DiDio of Yankee Group said, "[T]oday's trickle could be a
flood in 2005 or 2006." Critics of the policy, including Mike Wendy of
the Computing Technology Industry Association (COMPTIA), said it would
limit the state's choices and is ultimately bad for taxpayers.
(Microsoft is a leading member of the COMPTIA trade group.)
NewsFactor Network, 20 October 2003
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22516.html
NEW RESULTS FROM CAMPUS COMPUTING PROJECT
Results from this year's Campus Computing Project, an annual survey of
information technology at colleges and universities, will be released
this week. This year's survey reportedly highlights growing
involvement with wireless technologies, with three-quarters of
respondents having wireless networks and 14 percent having full
wireless coverage on campus. Other trends indicated by the survey
results include increasing e-commerce functions on campus, though not
at the level of commercial enterprises, and general pressure within
higher education on budgets. The exception to shrinking budgets,
however, is in the area of computer security, with nearly half of the
respondents saying they have increased spending on network security.
This year's survey added a question about downloading files on campus
networks. Of the 559 institutions that responded, 369 said they have
explicit policies designed to discourage or prevent downloading and
sharing of copyrighted music or movie files.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 October 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2003/10/2003102004n.htm
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