Sales sharks on the list - WAS: Opinions AMD64 vs EM64T vs Itanium II

Folks,
 
    I wanted to put this out there for your benefit:
 
When I arrived at work this morning I had a voicemail waiting for me. It
was from some sales rep who works for "an HP Channel Partner", and one
of his people had seen my post and wanted to "provide me with
information"... 
 
Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not on this list to receive sales
pitches. I did NOT post a phone number, nor did I even include an email
signature indicating the compay I work for. Yet this person managed to
call me... Thanks, but no thanks. We get excellent pricing and support
directly from HP if we want it.
 
Anyway, I'm not sure how others feel about this, but I'm not thrilled
about it - as you can probably tell.
 
And to the sales people out there on the list - DO NOT CALL ME unless I
ask you to!
 
Thanks,
 
Kevin

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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Collins, Kevin
[MindWorks]
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 9:10 AM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon);
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Subject: RE: Opinions AMD64 vs EM64T vs Itanium II


Just wanted to say thanks for the many opinions that I have so far
received. In our initial use, these servers will be for serving LDAP,
VNC, HTTP, etc. Nothing where huge performance is required. 
 
However, in the near future these systems will more than likely also be
used to investigate running SAP (on Oracle) and Oracle, so I do
appreciate the information.
 
Thanks,
 
Kevin

________________________________

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Collins, Kevin
[MindWorks]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 2:31 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Opinions AMD64 vs EM64T vs Itanium II



Hi folks, 

        we are in the process of buying some blades for our HP blade
center to use for Linux servers. Since we are starting fresh, and I have
no practical experience with Linux on 64-bit, I figured I would ask for
input from the Taroon and Nahant list.

Are there any technical reasons to prefer AMD64 (Opteron), EM64T (Xeon)
or Itanium II CPUs? Are there things that don't work in RedHat on any of
those platforms with either RHEL3 or RHEL4? 

Beyond that, we are currently running 32-bit on 32bit Xeon processors -
I'm think I can also run 32-bit RedHat on either the AMD64 or EM64T
chips - is that correct?

I appreciate any comments. 

Thanks, 

Kevin

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