Opteron customers show AMD in new light

“Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has gone from an afterthought among server customers to the darling of the enterprise world in just a year. The company’s Opteron chip has opened doors of corporate server rooms for AMD, and many enterprises are flirting with the new kid on the block….Spam filtering company Postini Inc. in Redwood City, Calif., purchased 32 of those Opteron systems to run database cache servers. The company’s vice-president of operations, Jon Prall, says the fact that a white box dual-processor Opteron was able to outperform a much more expensive four-processor Sun Microsystems Inc. 480 system turned him into a believer.”