Yahoo! Orders Wikipedia Hardware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday June 26, 2005 @07:28AM 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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Re:required? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2005-06-26 07:38 · Score: 0, Redundant

They're not going to refuse are they? :-)

Besides, if they keep growing at the rate they are as a service, it they don't need all that now, they will soon. Just look at Google: they started as a dinky little service, and now they require tens of thousands of servers for what is, essentially, just a search engine.

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Headline Writers: by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-26 08:15 · Score: 0, Redundant

The headline is misleading. How bout... Yahoo! orders hardware for Wikipedia.

I read it thinking "wiki sells hardware? wtf?!"

just a note.