There was a delivery benefit. At the time we were one of the largest server manufactures by volume. Generally we were on the same scale as Dell or HP. Buying fr

There was a delivery benefit. At the time we were one of the largest server manufactures by volume. Generally we were on the same scale as Dell or HP. Buying from only a single vendor had serious cost implications sure, but there was also a pure volume issues. If Intel can't get us 50k of a given chip fast enough we can fill capacity needs with an AMD platform instead. That was the goal at least.