Another English Translation (Score 1)

Here's yet another English translation.
was fun to flex the ol' Spanish gray matter again...
Anyone going to Mexico City --
You must eat as many tacos al pastor as possible -- they are absolutely exquisite and
the same dish in the U.S. doesn't hold a candle.

Think delicious savory marinated Pork, charcoal roasted on a vertical spit in the manner of Gyros, with layers of pineapple and onion interleaved, served in a grilled corn tortilla with onion, cilantro , and salsa. ungodly good.

Anyway, enough culinary diversions -- here's the article
(With credit to ciurana's translation in one spot) Local Government will Quit buying Windows by Alejandra Bordon
(translated by grogzoid)
available at http://www.laulea.com/mex_city_linux.html

Mexico City, Mexico - (March 12, 2001)

The informatics revolution whose seed was planted by a young Finnish programmer, Linux Torvalds, has arrived at the Federal District's government. (ed -- the Federal District is the government for the Mexico City metropolitan area -- sort of like Washington DC except for it is the commercial and demographic center of the country, as well as political)

The means: use Linux in all areas of the capitol's administration. Linux is an open operating system , free (as in beer and liberty) , created by Torvalds in 1991 which continues to spread throughout the world

The goal: save millions of pesos from expenditures towards commercial software -- like Windows -- and use these resources to sustain programs that fight poverty which have been put in place by the Chief of the Government, Andres Manual Lopez Obrador

The project is being run by the Technical Co-ordinator of the Captiol's administration , Jose Barberan, who communicated to us in an interview that Linux will be used in the programs for the database used for licence plate replacements.

The design of the program for free plate replacement -- for those taxpayers began in September 2000 and after various meetings headed by the Technical Coordinator, is in the phase of defining the "means of computation" being used (ed -- likely to be the platform)

In the initial phases, commercial systems are already being replaced by open ones in some of the Driving License Offices, where Linux is already being used

The goal, as explained by Barberan, is to migrate all sistems in the District's government to Linux in one or two years, in a gradual process which will avoid risks to the administration's operations

Amongst the programs which will be migrated to the new platforms are:

• (ed -- something to do with tax re-calculations)
• transit system databases (Mexico city has a decent subway system)
• and new programs, such as those for senior citizens.

• -- Interview Follows --