Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[subzero]

"Servers are first sold on reliability"

This is probably why AMD's Opteron is not receiving much acceptance from corporate IT types:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1402695,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532

"On the other hand, we encountered more stability problems with the MSI motherboard than with the Asus dual Xeon board. It's hard to pin this down – is it a BIOS issue, a memory problem, or chipset behavior? In this case, if you're interested in a dual Opteron system, it may be worth your while to buy one from a workstation supplier who has qualified their system with the application you plan to run. "