Opteron Quotes

We introduced Opteron two and a half years ago and we've been on a steady march upward since then... We expect that number to top 80 by the end of this quarter. - Randy Allen

Users described interest and excitement over AMD's 64-bit Opteron server capabilities, citing price performance advantages over Intel-based boxes, both for 64-bit Linux installations, as well as running in 32-bit mode running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, ... With the 64-bit version of Windows Server, which is supported on Opteron, beginning to enter the market, users are hoping for even greater performance for Windows Server installations. - Bob Gill

If you look at the number of platforms being brought to market from HP, IBM, and Sun, it's providing a lot of choice for consumers and IT managers to be able to more fully deploy Opteron in the different form factors they require for their enterprises. - Randy Allen

[In advance of Sun's announcement on Monday, HP officials served noticed that they intend to hold on to their market share.] We're sitting in a very good position in the market... A lot of our growth is in Linux and in architectures like blades. They're [Sun] coming to the party late. We have deep generations of architectures that have enabled us to have full generations of Opteron-based servers that have leading performance. - Paul Miller