opteron ?

[Randall J. Parr]

Jesse Keating wrote:

>On Tuesday 22 July 2003 00:06, James Ralston wrote:
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>>If you want to build inexpensive AMD64 systems, wait until the Athlon
>>64 is launched.  Opterons are all about building servers.
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>This is exactly the point though.  $The_next_version will be used in many many 
>places as a server, for heavy server duties.  AMD64 isn't an option there, as 
>it's a desktop processor.  We have customers CURRENTLY that refuse to use 
>SuSE and continue to use GinGin64 (Opteron compiled version of RHL9) even 
>though there is no support and no errata because they want opterons, and they 
>want Red Hat Linux as their server.
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>I think there is a potential userbase, but you can't get a userbase w/out a 
>product.  Chicken/Egg syndrome all over again *sigh*
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I know *I* have video/image processing customers that would like to go 
Opteron but have held off because of this lack of support. I also 
customers who use their RH boxes as development servers/workstations who 
are very interested in Opteron but also holding off because of lack of 
support.

R.Parr, RHCE
Temporal Arts