The WMF's servers have nothing to do with Microsoft. There do exist alternative processor architectures, not even just ARM (Itanium (probably too expensive), Tilera (massively parallel)), but I don't think migrating our software (particularly Labs' virtualization-related software) to them is trivial.
One should also ask whether the NSA is snooping on our transit links and our peering IXPs (Google is encrypting their own fiber, as well as their transit links, for that reason). On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 4:55 AM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > Can we please stop paying the Microsoft and NSA taxes and start buying > datacenter equipment which costs a lot less? Cubieboard/Cubietrucks for > instance? > > Ref.: > > http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html > > Best regards, > James > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
