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Unread 08-21-2002, 05:17 PM   #7
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I was having lunch yesterday with the regional Dell Systems Consultant ( guy who specs out our server rigs at the state). I was asking him about Dell and AMD.

he said "Dell knows whats hot and whats not, and one thing they know for sure is AMD in a server is not hot at all, Intel is where the confidence is. it may be cheaper to get an AMD, but for a few bucks more, getting a Xeon is just so much more soothing to our customers"

I agree with his apprasial of the situation... I wouldnt buy a server for my enterprise network here at the State data center with AMD chips in it ( at this point in the game atleast)... AMD's not a stable company compared to Intel.

For my machines? AMD are just fine! I dig AMD's good's... just not in the servers that run a few thousand nodes.
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