Wikimedia's Wikipedia.org is one of the most visited websites approaching 250 million unique visitors per month. New content is pushed in by the over 100,000 volunteers who edit the articles. This announcement "Wikimedia Selects Sun Microsystems to Enhance Multimedia Experience..." describes how users can now upload large video files using the servers and open storage environment provided by Sun and other open source organizations.
The solution is built up in an open source paradise: MySQL,
Apache, Sun's Open Storage infrastructure all on Sun's
X4500 and X4150 Servers connected to Sun
StorageTek arrays.
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