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New York State Senate goes open source

The New York State Senate has launched what it’s calling a cutting-edge 
program to not only release data, “but help empower citizens and give back to 
the community”.  

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/23537
CIA invests in open-source enterprise search

Last week, In-Q-Tel, the technology arm of the CIA, invested in Lucid 
Imagination, which provides support, maintenance, and add-on software for 
Apache Lucene and Solr. According to Lucid, the Lucene/Solr technology is 
downloaded more than 9,000 times per day, and more than 4,000 organizations 
are using the software for enterprise search.    

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10270042-62.html

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Scolded, Microsoft Takes Blame For Swarms of Butterfly Decals

The corporation accepted the blame yesterday for hundreds of plastic 
butterfly decals that were affixed across the face of Midtown Manhattan as 
part of a $300 million promotional campaign for its new MSN 8 Internet 
service.    

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E6DD1E3CF935A15753C1A9649C8B63&scp=2&sq=dunlap+microsoft&st=nyt

New York nears decision on ODF vs OOXML

In addition to New York, other states, including Massachusetts, Minnesota and 
Texas, have eyed mandating one document file format across their IT systems. 

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