Wikimedia, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia and its related sites (Wiktionary, etc.), has moved its entire server infrastructure to Ubuntu Server. In the pas Wikimedia has run a mixture of Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Fedora.
“It definitely has gotten a lot simpler,” Vibber said. Mass upgrades can be done more easily, and the data center can be managed as a unit, he said.
“We can run the same combination everywhere, and it does the same thing” and runs the same software, Vibber said. “Everything is a million times easier.”
The move has been seen in the industry as a major victory for Ubuntu Server, and other community based distributions, such as CentOS.
ComputerWorld [via Slashdot]