Sun gives support to Opteron

THE NUMBER OF times that we've had to write a story about Sun supporting Opteron despite what everyone else in the industry is saying is beginning to chafe a little. Pop on over to News.com and there's yet another story that confirms what we have been saying all along. Sun is supporting Opteron.

There's no big hoopla from Sun about it, the company has simply announced that Solaris, Java and Sun ONE work very nicely on the Opteron, thank you very much. But it doesn't take much reading between the lines to get the real gist of the story.

Sun has been evaluating the Opteron, we all know that, and it has no love of Intel. It's also a company full of very smart folk. It doesn't take much gumption to figure out that the Opteron, which will be available in one, two and four way systems before the end of June, is going somewhere.

Sun has decided that it's only going to support it as a 32bit system for now but we wonder how long it will hold onto that position. Perhaps the most telling part of the article on News.com is right at the very end. A company spokesman is quoted as saying that the company is continuing to evaluate demand for x86-64. µ

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