Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[SmallPops]

It is a big change from what these guys were saying alittle over a year ago:

October 9, 2002
Gartner strikes at Yamhill, drives nails into Hammer's coffin
" In AMD's case, the analysts don't believe the Opteron meets any of the criteria for new processor adoption--application vendor enthusiasm, server vendor commitment, server vendor enthusiasm, or and customer enthusiasm. Even with OS support from Windows and Linux, unless there's a change in those critical aspects of Opteron's ecosystem, I am standing by my previous assessment: that when it comes to enterprise computing, Opteron is going to be a dud."

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2884970,00.html

February 4, 2004
"HP's Choice of Opteron Chip Will Roil the Server Industry"

I don't know if or who did pay for this latest Gartner piece.
I am starting to understand what Keith and others mean when they mention how far AMD has really come.

Regards,
Smallpops