Partners Line up For AMD’s Opteron 64-bit CPU Launch

Itanium and x86 processors, IBM zSeries mainframes, and iSeries and pSeries servers, said Markus Rex, SuSE’s vice president of improvement. That can make it easier for independent software program distributors to construct applications for all six platforms in a single swoop, he mentioned. "It’s actually a aggressive benefit for us," Rex mentioned. Early in the process, AMD despatched SuSE considered one of the first Opteron chips; SuSE had Linux working on it in 64-bit mode in simply three days, a remarkably quick time in contrast with the standard development course of, Rex said. Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. in Raleigh, N.C., won’t have its Opteron-supported operating system prepared till the fall, and Microsoft Corp.’s Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 products for Opteron won’t be ready until midyear (see story). IBM said it may have an Opteron model of its DB2 Universal Database for Linux prepared this summer. Oracle is still engaged on its Oracle9i Database on Opteron product, which is about for launch later this year.

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