GovExec.com: Budget Chief Sees Improvement on Technology Front

“Reflecting on his final days director of the Office of
Management and Budget, Mitch Daniels said the Bush administration’s
approach to managing information technology investments is
succeeding…

“At the behest of consumer rights advocate Ralph Nader and the
Consumer Project on Technology, Daniels and other OMB officials
have been contemplating a move that could force federal agencies to
purchase common software, such as word processors and
graphics-presentation programs, to adhere to open standards.

“The move, according to the project’s executive director, James
Love, would boost competition for ‘open source’ software whose code
is open to inspection and alteration by users and lower prices for
the government…”

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