[Flug] Fwd: [seul-edu] Linux a città di Messico

[raphael calvelli]

Un'argomento supplementare per l'uso di software libero nel Comune di Firenze.

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>Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:14:23 -0800
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>Subject: [seul-edu] Mexico City uses Linux
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>On March, Monday 12 (just yesterday), the mexican national newspaper 
>"Reforma" published a full featured article, titled "The government 
>adopts free system". It announces that the government of the biggest 
>city of the world, the Distrito Federal (D.F., or Mexico City) has 
>announced its support for Linux.
>
>It's a very long article, but I'll try to put the essential facts in 
>English. (please excuse some errors, I'm not very good speaking or 
>writing in English language)
>
>"The government of Mexico city has initiated an informatic 
>revolution that will let cut millions of pesos in expenses for 
>software licences, using a free and open operating system named 
>Linux.
>
>This is the first government -that we know- that will switch all its
>informatic systems to an operating system that have no licenses.
>
>The goal, as explained by Jose Barberán, who is the Technical 
>Coordinator of Systems Administration in Mexico city, is to have all 
>the systems of the city government in Linux in about 1 to 2 years 
>(....)
>
>The informatic revolution which seed was planted by a young finland
>programmer, Linus Torvalds, is now in the government of Mexico city.
>
>The main goal is to cut expenses of dozens of millions of dollars in 
>the payment of services due the use of commercial programs -such as 
>Windows- and to use those saved resources in programs against 
>poverty.
>
>The design of the program for the free replacement began in 
>September 2000, and after some reunions of the Technical Comiteee, 
>it has already arrived to the phase of licitation of the computer 
>goods. In some of the tax offices already begun the switching from 
>the commercial to the free operating system, where Linux is already 
>installed."
>
>It includes an interview with Jose Barberan. The main issues 
>declared there are:
>
>"¿Do you plan to use and develop the Linux environment for goverment use?
>No, we don't plan to develop, there is a lot of people in the world 
>doing that, but we want to have it in all the systems of Mexico city 
>government (...)
>
>
>¿Do you plan to replace the Windows environment that is used in the offices?
>Yes (...)
>
>¿Isn't a risk to switch the systems?
>It is a problem of training of the people, we need to create a
>transition program to replace the things we use today to the new 
>systems, but we must do it orderly.
>
>
>¿Are there some resistance of the commercial companies to avoid that 
>you enter open systems? I believe that means losses for them ¿do you 
>have problems for it?
>There was resistance, but each time is less, and I should notice 
>that there are commercial companies supporting open systems, such as 
>IBM and Sun Microsystems. They're not the only ones, of course, 
>there are a lot of them."
>
>The graphics in the interview suggest that the government chose SuSE Linux.
>
>"Reforma" newspaper published this article in spanish on this web 
>page: http://www.reforma.com/ciudad_de_mexico/articulo/078598/.
>
>Regards,
>
>Alejandro Díaz Infante
>Escuela Normal "Manuel Ávila Camacho" (ENMAC)
>
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