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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. the by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. Sixth post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nt

  3. 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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  4. Using Goodwill to Hide Rot by reporter · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    This sudden generosity by Google and Yahoo! smells like using goodwill to avert the eyes of the good, kindhearted folks from some rotten behavior exhibited by the same companies. What rotten behavior has occurred?

    Consider Microsoft's recent censoring of the words "democracy", "human rights", "freedom for Tibet", and any other character strings that affront Chinese culture. As we in the SlashDot community discovered, Microsoft is not the only culprit. Both Google and Yahoo! have behaved similarly and submitted to the draconian will of Chinese society.

    The motto at these companies is "Profits before democracy or human rights".

    I am not buying what these mercenaries are celling are selling.

    - reporter, member of Amnesty International since 1984

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

    the mac power PC hardware is also a dead end

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  6. Re:Hopefully.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This makes no sense. Since Apple is transitioning to x86 starting in a year or so, does that mean that his new G5s will suddenly turn off?