Another design win for the Sunnyvale boys. Being used in something as mission critical as weather.com's database server has really got to get the rest of the computing world thinking about the dependability of the Opteron; one of the main concerns OEMs have about all AMD processors.

"AMD announced today that weather.com, the Web site of The Weather Channel® and the leading source of online weather information, has successfully completed the migration of its 32-bit database applications to AMD Opteron™ processor-based servers from IBM. IBM’s eServer 325 running Oracle 8i has delivered a performance boost for weather.com as well as providing a seamless transition from the previous server platform."