Re: [Fed-Talk] OMB ponders Air Force's Microsoft setup
Re: [Fed-Talk] OMB ponders Air Force's Microsoft setup
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] OMB ponders Air Force's Microsoft setup
- From: Michael Pike <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:12:49 -0700
Wow... read the last couple of sentences of that story...
Who IS MAKING THE POOR SOFTWARE? They spend more money patching than buying??? Let's give them MORE money since they have done so well writing it in the past.
No wonder people laugh at us...
Mike
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"Poor software quality continues to plague us." Gilligan said. He spoke this morning during a breakfast meeting sponsored by the National Business Promotions and Conferences Inc., a company that holds meetings and seminars for government and industry officials.
Air Force officials spend more money patching commercial software than buying it, Gilligan said. "Commercial-off-the-shelf software [is] now mission critical," he said. "We need better quality."
On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Dave Hale wrote:
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2005/0124/web-bpci-01-25-05.asp
OMB ponders Air Force's Microsoft setup
The government's top information technology official wants to distribute the Air Force's standardized and securely configured Microsoft software governmentwide.
Karen Evans, director of the Office of Management and Budget's Office of E-Government and IT, approached Air Force officials last month about the idea after they signed two Microsoft consolidation contracts worth $500 million in November to streamline the service's software and support contracts with the company, said John Gilligan, the Air Force's chief information officer.
On Jan 26, 2005, at 12:37 PM, email@hidden wrote:
I am TDY (getting mail & services on a communal computer) so can't confirm the following; but, I believe there is an item in current issue of Federal Computer Week (FCW) to the effect that the Federal CIO is stating that she wants to deploy (mandate) the Air Force Microsoft(tm) solution throughout the federal government.
George Polich
Army Public Affairs Center
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