Intel to ship barebones servers

[Black Jack]

It seems like Intel is going to take a page from AMD yet again, and
start producing its own line of barebones servers:

http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=48513

I think this is yet another capitualation to AMD marketing strategies.
Intel may have produced barebones servers before, but it lacked any
real focus before, not like AMD has. Although AMD doesn't directly
produce barebones servers itself, there can be little doubt that it
was directly involved in seeding the market with its Opteron partners
like Newisys, Appro, etc. These barebones servers have made it
impossible for big name OEMs to keep refusing to sell AMD equipment
anymore -- they are just too attractive now. We may be seeing the
first signs that Intel's slavish OEMs are finally starting to become
restless and demanding that Intel do for them what AMD does for them.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Robert Myers]

It seems like Intel is going to take a page from AMD yet again, and
start producing its own line of barebones servers:

http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=48513

I think this is yet another capitualation to AMD marketing strategies.
Intel may have produced barebones servers before, but it lacked any
real focus before, not like AMD has. Although AMD doesn't directly
produce barebones servers itself, there can be little doubt that it
was directly involved in seeding the market with its Opteron partners
like Newisys, Appro, etc. These barebones servers have made it
impossible for big name OEMs to keep refusing to sell AMD equipment
anymore -- they are just too attractive now. We may be seeing the
first signs that Intel's slavish OEMs are finally starting to become
restless and demanding that Intel do for them what AMD does for them.

Feels like an Itanium play to me. Xeon just along for the ride.
Don't expect Intel to do anything that would give Michael heartburn
(unless he steps out of line, that is).

RM

 

[George Macdonald]

It seems like Intel is going to take a page from AMD yet again, and
start producing its own line of barebones servers:

http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=48513

I think this is yet another capitualation to AMD marketing strategies.
Intel may have produced barebones servers before, but it lacked any
real focus before, not like AMD has. Although AMD doesn't directly
produce barebones servers itself, there can be little doubt that it
was directly involved in seeding the market with its Opteron partners
like Newisys, Appro, etc. These barebones servers have made it
impossible for big name OEMs to keep refusing to sell AMD equipment
anymore -- they are just too attractive now. We may be seeing the
first signs that Intel's slavish OEMs are finally starting to become
restless and demanding that Intel do for them what AMD does for them.

Kinda ironic really when you consider Intel backed away from building boxes
years ago when the OEMs got up in arms about it. The high value OEMs are
going to be pissed when those things start showing up at BestBuy.

Rgds, George Macdonald

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