Replies to post #43405 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[StocksR4Me]

Still looking for a 1-2 tier vendor for a dual opteron 5U tower server using U320 hard drives. Preferably 4-6 drive bays with dual controller. I looked on HP's site but didn't see anything. Buying 1-2 months.

Heres your competition: IBM dual 2.8G Xeon 5U? tower with 9 drive bays, dual U320 controller, redundant power supply and fans, Cost was about over $3,500 before memory and hard drives. Total cost before OS/software slightly over $6,500.
(With 4 U320 15K 70G HD and 4G memory)

New departmental server to host SQL 2000 for 30-60 users.

(Boss is fanatic for IBM but would consider HP and possibly even Sun servers)

So far, the only options I see is to build it myself which the boss doesn't care for.

[jhalada]

sgolds,

if Intel is really pulling resources from Itanium to P4 then it is the start of the endgame for Itanium.

If the story is true, that is the most telling part of the article.

Joe