Mexico City Says Hola to Linux, Mar 16, 2001

Mexico City's municipal government announced plans to switch city computers to the Linux operating system and to use the money it saves to fund social welfare programs.

In an interview with the Mexican daily Reforma, the city's technical coordinator, José Barberán estimated that the municipality would save millions of dollars "that are spent, in my opinion, unnecessarily on software."

La revolución informática cuya semilla plantó un joven programador finlandés, Linus Torvalds, llegó al Gobierno del Distrito Federal. El medio: utilizar Linux en todas las áreas de la administración capitalina, un sistema operativo abierto, gratuito y libre, creado por Torvalds en 1991 y cada vez más difundido en todo el mundo.El fin: ahorrar decenas de millones de pesos en el pago de servicios por concepto de la utilización de programas comerciales -como Windows-

The storage move dovetails with IBM's massive commitment to having the Linux operating system on its servers. The company plans to make sure Linux works on all four of its server product lines, including its high-end mainframes. Adding Linux support for storage means IBM can sell its own storage systems for servers running Linux.

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