Replies to post #39798 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[mmoy]

HPQ is the 800 pound gorilla of the x86 server market (with IBM and Dell behind), and full line of Opteron servers (vs. very limited IBM and non-existent for Dell) gives HPQ very good reason to push Opteron - the competition has no answer.

Well, there is Sun Microsystems.

[bobs10]

Yah, there were quite a few things in the post that caught my attention. Not being a tech anymore, the implications of the models went over my head, but I thought it interesting that an HP rep would be bad mouthing INTC's FSB as being old technology to the CEO and CIO of what was obviously a very large corporation.

Also the very large numbers of units involved sounded very good. And the fact that Noconos couldn't do 64 bit except in workstations until 05 was another confirmation of things I had heard. Then there was the comment about HP not offering 4way opterons anymore. Didn't HP just start selling those? Why stop offering them since they're Xeon killers? And finally HP clearly needs to come out with a line of AMD corporate desktops and laptops.

All in all I found lots of good stuff. The biggest thing seemed to be the indication that AMD is gaining more acceptance in the corporate world.

[j3pflynn]

Joe - agreed re:"This is the most important part, IMO"
(DL380s)

[Jules2]

Posted by: jhalada
In reply to: bobs10 who wrote msg# 39792
Date:7/13/2004 10:21:14 PM
Post #of 39825

Bobs,

This is the most important part, IMO:

THEN THEY TOLD US THAT IN DEC WE COULD GET DL380'S WITH OPTERONS TOO, AS WELL AS BLADES WITH AMD CHIPS!!!!!!

DL-300 line is kind of a bread and butter of the server market. If HP really does come out with one, there will be a head to head competition in the entire Compaq server line between Xeon and Opteron. Opteron is clearly a better solution, and the potential is there is for significant gain of market share in the server market.

Opteron based blades have been rumored for some time, but 300 class server is news, one I was hoping for since Opteron was released.

Since the timeframe is December (I would like it sooner), it very much looks like this will be another original design by Compaq, and chances are, it will be a very attractive machine.

HPQ is the 800 pound gorilla of the x86 server market (with IBM and Dell behind), and full line of Opteron servers (vs. very limited IBM and non-existent for Dell) gives HPQ very good reason to push Opteron - the competition has no answer.

HPQ can match up their own Xeon server against any Xeon server of IBM and Dell...

Joe

On yahoo's AMD board someone provided a link to HP's site. They have a 320 listed, under news or new items, somthing to that effect.

Regards

Jules