Alan Yates
Alan Yates
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This is a fantastic opportunity to work in the game I have a great passion for but also a great belief in.
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This is where the rock stuff comes through, ... If something's happening or about to happen, it's gonna come through Smith's. That's probably one of the reasons I gravitate to hanging out around here, just to kind of keep my ear to the ground. There's that rock energy here.
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The product has been extremely successful because it's more usable.
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We've shipped a version of Office 2003 with an open format and we've expressed more commitment to the approach in our next Office releases. We feel that we're not being given enough of an opportunity to explain how openness is possible.
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The ODF Alliance (Sun, IBM and their friends) apparently want to push ODF as an 'exclusive' standard to the detriment of all others vs. enabling choice among formats such as PDF from Adobe, Open XML, HTML and others.
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As we look to the future, and all of these data types become increasingly intertwined, locked-in formats like OpenDocument are not well suited to address these varying data types -- as the proposed policy itself acknowledges. ... We would advise the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to do a thorough evaluation of the costs and benefits before making such a major shift.
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They come in at the beginning of the week, we evaluate them, we put them in a band, we work with them one on one, we get them on and off the stage and teach them how to work together as a band,