Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[neye_eve]

we're getting a dual opteron system at work

We looked at the costs, vendor support, and performance dimensions, and we're getting a low end DL 585. I don't anticipate it being hugely noticable performance-wise than our current offerings (file, print, intranet-webserving), but we need to swap out machines, and this lets us consolidate 2 servers in that process. Less server maintenance, newer machine, better performance, less power/heat.

When our company set the parameters for our purchase, our vendor/partner decided that the opteron machine was the best fit. Oh, and our support vendor happens to be Microsoft's national "partner-of-the-year" so it's nice to see that a company on that level is comfortable recommending an opteron machine as the best option (for our particular situation, at least).

neye