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Yahoo! Orders Wikipedia Hardware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-whoop dept.

Edit This Page writes "Jimmy Wales announced today that Yahoo! has ordered 23 HP servers for the Wikimedia Foundation. The three database servers are model DL 385, and will come with dual Athlons, 8GB of RAM, and 6x 146GB 15K RPM drives each. They will also provide rackspace and bandwidth. The announcement comes four months after Google's announcement of support, and two months after Yahoo's own. Google has not yet made their intentions clear. You can read more about the specifications of what will soon be a 100+ server cluster at the Wikimedia Servers wiki article."

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  1. This sounds like by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    a me-too move. Good for the Wikipedia guys tho...

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  2. Re:All over little ol' me! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're an utter moron.

  3. Bad idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wikipedia was a great idea in theory but it is just too tainted with nonsense, girly egos, waffle and noise to be of any real benefit to those seeking information.

    Generally speaking (but certainely not always), the technical and computing articles are of a fairly good quality, however other areas are little more than fan pages or adverts for the things they are describing. If you try and correct anyone about them they get all uppety with a kind of "Don't like it don't read it" or "This is how we do things around here" attitude. That's a real shame.