PC Stats has posted a review on an AMD Athlon XP2000+ Workstation
Corporations have always been a conservative bunch, slow to embrace new suppliers in the face of Intel's overwhelming 'warm fuzzy feeling'. Intel is in a way like a security blanket - the IT department grew up on it, and they know it backwards and forwards. Any impetuous to move to a different platform is only going to be brought about by major performance increases and major cost reductions. Fortunately for AMD, the Athlon XP2000+ fits into both of these categories with ease.Read more
As we learned over a cup of coffee with the nice AMD folk at COMDEX last year, AMD processors are still struggling with the large business segment that tends to think 'Intel Only'. With 27.5% market share of medium sized businesses and 39.8% in small businesses, the 6.7% stake that AMD has in large corporations is just a drop in the bucket. Given the performance numbers we have been seeing with the Athlon XP 2000+ compared to the Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz, its not surprising to see more and more individuals and IT guys siding with the Athlon for workstation systems. Now naturally there are different levels of workstations, culminating with a dually for the real die-hards, but even a single processor system can offer employees a solid computing foundation.
