Wikipedia simplifies IT infrastructure by moving to one Linux vendor

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 9, 2008 10:18 PM EDT
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Since the free, online Wikipedia user-created encyclopedia began in 2001, the Linux-based IT infrastructure behind it has been expanded and lassoed together to keep up with the demands of the popular Web site. That meant that often it was haphazardly expanded by tossing in a new server with a different operating system each time. Over five years, the servers were running a variety of versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Fedora, making it more complicated to install applications and maintain the servers. Soon, that problem will be gone.

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