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Dell did this for ages with AMD chips. Same time every year you'd see an article go across all the magazines about Dell planning to introduce AMD chips to thei
by Twirrim 10y ago
Dell did this for ages with AMD chips. Same time every year you'd see an article go across all the magazines about Dell planning to introduce AMD chips to their servers, and just as quickly vanish once Dell had finished negotiating with Intel.
- r00fus 10y agoThe resulting Intel Payola sometimes carrying Dell's quarters - preventing Dell from missing profitability. https://www.velocityreviews.com/threads/intel-and-dell-scum-of-the-earth.729078/ https://www.velocityreviews.com/threads/intel-and-dell-scum-...
- Spooky23 10y agoYou can do this with a moderate sized enterprise. Engage HP/Dell or a strong VAR. Get them on the hook and focus on Intel E7 (and SQL Server enterprise if you are an MS shop). Then get meeting scheduled with IBM and Oracle. Talk to the VAR or OEM guy in your office with your POWER mug poorly hidden. Start asking questions about TPC benchmarks and error correction. Ask if you can pay for cores only when you need peak capacity. Intel will provide them with marketing support, potentially very significant if they care about you. Microsoft will also bend over backwards for an Oracle compete opportunity.
- ams6110 10y agoThey did more than plan, I have a rack full of older Dell servers with AMD CPUs.
- Twirrim 10y agoWhen I say "did this for ages", I'm reaching back to the turn of the millennium. It started happening about as soon as AMD brought their first competitive chip to the market. Dell did eventually start shipping servers with AMD processors in them, but it was long after they first started saying "We may start selling AMD based servers."
- TwoBit 10y agoThat might change with AMD's new chips.
- MulliMulli 10y agoLet's hope so