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Poll: Who is your company in bed with: Intel or AMD (...or Apple)

According to a survey by a major OEM, more than 50% of corporate customers would be prepared to 'accept or even prefer' Athlon/Duron based systems. (Source: AMD Q3 2000 conference call)
 
We have a big contract with IBM (we use AS/400s) and they include all our desktop PCs, and those all seem to be intel.

I don't work much with our x86 servers, I'm on the AS/400 group, but I think they all use Xeons.

AMD doesn't have Dual CPU so that eliminates them from most of our servers, and for PCs we use whatever IBM gives us, right now that seems Intel as well.

While the real answer is IBM 🙂 it's Intel by proxy.
 
I know what fkloster's company uses 😉

Well, here on campus, 25% of the machines are Dell Dimension PII 450's, 25% are Dell OptiPlex GX110 w/PIII's (don't know what speed), and the remaning 50% are various iterations of Sun boxes (which have absolutely NO idea about hardware wise).
 
Ohh, there is really about .08% Macs floating around 😉 I've only seen about 10 on campus.
 
I work primarily for MCIWorldcom, and they use all Intel machines. We use a mixture of old Compaqs and newer Dell machines, and do tech support for HP pavilions. lol. odd, huh??
 
To bad here, no company in iceland has started selling AMD based system for companies, you can get them for home users though.

At work we recently bought some HP machines, all PIII. They offered us RDRAM systems but I just said nooooo and instead we will buy a far better system that costs only very little more. We have just bought a HP VH3000 server and few HP omnibook 6000 laptops, I got one 😉
 
For some reason, perhaps because of AMD's recent successes, it is easy to forget how dominate Intel is in business computing isn't it?
 
Most corporates are scared of anything new. I'd love to just get a PC budget and build my own. We pay damn 50 bucks avg a month PER PC for support. Hah. I'd like to be the company who sold that to them. We had a deal with Acer and now IBM. IBm has these lame ass towers that can seriously harm you by the way the case is designed. Tons and tons of sharp edges and grooves.

Anyway, I'd love for an AMD system to make its way onto my desk. I'm going to be in charge of 2 servers we're getting.. maybe I can convince them to get Athlons since we're using Compaq for the servers.. though they might just get Intel Xeon chips.
 
my dell campus... oh.. oops, I mean my campus runs Dell Optiplexs, PII 300 (17 mon), and PIII 500 (19 Sony FD!!!). and some G4 and G3 with 19' monitor, they are HUGE!

but recently got a bunch of Ipaq which looks pretty cool... 🙂

not too shabby for a 3rd Tier Public school.
 
We do mostly commercial business, and they generally want Intel, so most of our business is Intel. We do get requests for athlon, and we do sometimes recommend athlon.
 
Gee pm, I figured you'd have a Sun to work with........
Having done repair's on roughly half of the local businesses computers, I'd say the figures are about %40 AMD, %50 Intel, %10 Cyrix. There are a couple of Macs (not surprisingly, all are in publishing and graphics)

One point- all are "small" (1-2 computers) business where you don't worry much about brand name (as far as cpu). You do look at price, and the ability to run your software (most use QuickBooks). Other than that you really don't care.

As far as my own "shop system" AMD K6 300
 
Ya my boss is going to be the last person on earth who buys macs. He won't even consider anything else. Its crazy

Schola
 
Actually, Ddad, we at Intel are mostly Intel. Everyone but the engineers and the servers use Intel exclusively. Most of the computers and laptops come from IBM - although we use a fair amount of Dell products too. This is by far the vast majority of the employees of the company.

The engineers and servers generally use systems made by the big company we are currently on the best terms with. Currently this is HP - so I work on an HP Visualize C3600 with 2 21" monitors (yeah, it's PA-RISC). When I first joined Intel I remember that our current partner of choice appeared to be IBM.
 
I'm only allowed to buy HPs at work (we are their 3rd largest client). That means Intel only. If HP used AMD chips in their business machines, I would definitely go for those.
 
At work 99% of our PCs are Intel... Compaq Deskpros and Proliant servers. We have about 400 Macs, most of which are G3/G4 machines...

Dave
 
Countless thousands of Intel-based machines from various OEMs, a few hundred each of Alpha-based and Sun (FYI NFS4, those would be SPARC), and I think there's still a CRAY somewhere - now what in the heck is inside that thing I have no idea. 🙂

Edit - I do recall a few Macs in the Media & Publishing division.
 
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