[K12OSN] K12osn - OT 4-way Opteron or 2-way 4 core Xeon server?

[Julius Szelagiewicz]

Dear Folks,
 I am faced with the need to buy a big server for the business application
that I'm moving from HP-UX to Linux. I am looking at 32GB memory and at
least 4 processors. Gateway has a nice 4 way Opteron based server but
only 2 way Xeon servers. Xeons come dual and quad core.

 Should I push for the more oomph with Xeons (is it more oomph?) for
considerably (40%) more money, or will I be happy with 4 2.8GHz Opterons.
The application is compiled and tested for 32 bit processors and will
most probably stay that way for a while.

Thanks, julius