They're busy rejiggering everything they got to run Microsoft software... windows servers, xp pro, office, sharepoint, the whole shooting match. If they get all their funding, it will end up being a $500 Million dollar contract and entrench Microsoft in the DOJ so deeply it will never be able to be extracted again. So much for getting convicted as a monopoly-- apparently the punishment is a slap on the wrist, a wimpy fine and a great big enormous cushy contract that will last a lifetime....

The DOJ has a 7-year implementation schedule, pushed down by the CIO, to install microsoft products from the very top exterior gateway all the way down throughout the agency at every level so that every agency, every department, every user, throughout the entire organziation, will be running Microsoft windows and office products in some form or fashion.

Oh, and while they did look at some other vendors, they didn't look very hard. Not to point fingers or anything, but the entire selection and subsequent award process seemed pretty stinky meaning it never once seemed like any other candidates were seriously considered as alternatives.

Can you say "Ka-Ching" ???

Now that's Justice for ya!

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