[CLUE-Talk] Colorado Technology Summit

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Friday 01 August 2003 11:02 am, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Overview:
> Friday, September 12, 2003
> 8:00 am. to 5:00 p.m.
> Colorado Convention Center
>
> Hosted by:
> Colorado Governor Bill Owens, Secretary-designate of Technology John
> Hansen and the Governor's Commission on Science and Technology
>
> This year's Summit will be in Denver.
>
> This year's program features a full morning of workshops and sessions, in
> addition to the general session in the afternoon featuring Governor Bill
> Owens, and Scott McNealy, Chairman, President and CEO, of Sun
> Microsystems.
>
> http://www.oit.state.co.us/summit2003/overview.asp

How hypocritical.
Before the election, I was trying to get Owen's staff to use money that was 
going to MS desktop's on developing in-state Linux based Businesses. I 
actually did get called by 2 of Owen's ppl. One from Tech and one from 
Finance.
The tech guy said that they were not allowed to replace the MS boxes with 
Linux. Any of them. However, they might replace the Unix Boxes with Linux. Of 
course, that would not really save money unless it was a planned upgrade.

The finance guy was more interesting . His comment :
"You do not bit the hand that feeds you" 
when discussing stopping the MS dekstops.
That infurated me as I think about all the employment that Sun, HP, and IBM do 
here vs. MS's (certainly less than 1000 and I think closer to less than 100).

Owens' staff was willing to boot out the companies who actually pay taxes here 
and offer employment.





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cheers
g.r.r.
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