Wikipedia to be powered by Ubuntu!
Friday, October 10th, 2008Wikipedia is in the process of migrating its 400-odd servers from a mix of RedHat and Fedora installations to the server edition of Ubuntu. It’s a great coup for the Ubuntu project and the feedback gained from Wikipedia’s operations will no doubt be very valuable indeed.
One obvious point to make is that given the profile of Wikipedia’s operations, any issues they may encounter while adopting Ubuntu Server are going to be exposed in a very public way. But hey, it’s all going to be character building stuff!
The article also highlights another encouraging possibility:
Despite these efforts to push Ubuntu in the server market, Canonical has had difficulty competing with Red Hat and Novell for enterprise server marketshare. Some changing trends could, however, soon give Ubuntu an advantage. Organizations are increasingly turning toward free, community-driven Linux distributions as in-house Linux expertise becomes more accessible. During a presentation at the LinuxWorld conference earlier this year, 451 Group analyst Jay Lyman said that Ubuntu and CentOS will both gain enterprise acceptance as a result of this trend.