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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. broken images? by Karma+Sucks · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Am I the only one seeing broken images all over Slashdot? It's been going on for days now.

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  2. Re:Hopefully.. by chez69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the mac power PC hardware is also a dead end

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