Massachusetts' open standards road map has been formalized in the state's capital spending plan. "... in evaluating new technology purchases, the state will give preference to open-source software and products that adhere to open standards such as Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)." Eric Kriss, state administration and finance secretary stated, "We're going to be evaluating all projects to ensure conformance to open standards as we move forward and to retroactively move legacy systems to open standards... We want to make sure what we build is interoperable and interchangeable, so that different applications can use the same data, so we won't have to be constantly reinventing and rethinking basic functionality." The state will also give preference to open source software, but will buy closed source products if they are found to be superior.
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