Jimmy Wales schrieb:
First, we are committed for internal ideological/political reasons to run Wikipedia on all free software. Perhaps if it could be shown that every element of Xserve that's actually in use by Wikipedia is open source (of course the OS X kernel is, and apache/php/etc would be, but I really don't know what else), this objection could be met.
OS X is neither Open Source nor free, but there's a Linux distribution for Power Mac called Yellow Dog which is based on Red Hat Linux. Xserve is fine technology on the paper, but IMHO there's too little know-how with us about this technology. However it's never worth 10-30% more money for our purposes - unless Apple would donate or discount them ;)
Regards, -asb