Replies to post #41339 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[mmoy]

That explains why their service has been so crappy lately.

I was using them for quite some time and then a few months ago,
they had some pretty bad performance problems. So bad that I
switched to USA Today for weather information.

[I_banker]

So chipguy, in your experience, it is common place for a company to use only one IT architecture. In reading your link, it appears that the weather channel is replacing RISC servers with I2. They are not replacing Opteron. Also, I noted that the original Opteron announcement was for weather.com, which is a subsidiary of the weather channel.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~81772,00.html

It would be interesting to know if the HP I2's are replacing older HP equipment (i.e. Alpha/PA-RISC).

[upc]

How much Intel marketing money did it take? Were those systems effectively free to the Weather Channel?

upc