[Discussioni] [NEWS] Mr. Gates Goes to Washington

[Andrea Glorioso]

Ciao a tutti.

Non e` materiale particolarmente nuovo, ma e` comunque sempre utile.

http://www.cio.com/archive/091504/microsoft.html/

Microsoft  is one  of  the  top lobbying   shops in  the country. With
spending on federal lobbying in line with traditional powerhouses such
as financial  services  company   Citigroup  and  defense  contractors
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman,  Microsoft makes the rest of the
computer industry look  like poorcountry  cousins. In 2000   Microsoft
spent $9.4  million  on federal-level lobbyists, according  to records
obtained from the Center for  Public  Integrity (CPI). That same  year
IBM, Oracle, Sun and Cisco  combined to spend $9.49 million. Microsoft
has exceeded its 2000 total in each of  the past three years. It spent
$11.1 million in 2003, while IBM (which is nearly three times the size
of  Microsoft)  spent  $6.7  million, Oracle  $2.1   million, Sun $1.6
million and Cisco $645,200, according to the  CPI. Recently, The Hill,
a Washington  insider publication, named  Jack Krumholtz,  Microsoft's
managing director of federal government  affairs and associate general
counsel, one of the top corporate lobbyists in the country, and called
Microsoft "a lobbying powerhouse."

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