No Opteron Support in Windows 64 bit?
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Shawn Wildermuth
Mar. 24, 2003 10:06 PM
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Bad move Microsoft. Your new mantra is supposed to be "competition is good", but this reeks of a side deal with Intel. Us, the users, want 64 bit power, but until competition helps lower costs, we can't afford it.
Ok, maybe 64 bit is supposed to be for big iron, but someone once said that 640K would be all the memory we'd ever need. What can we do to get you to change your mind MS?
That's just my opinion, I could be wrong...
Shawn Wildermuth is the editor of ONDotnet.com. He is also the founder of ADOGuy.com and is the author of "Pragmatic ADO.NET" for Addison-Wesley.
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Yeah, this is a dot net blog right?
2003-04-08 10:57:35 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Yeah, this is a dot net blog right? So, care to comment on the absence of dot net on 64 bit windows?
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Not even DotNet for 64 Bit Windows!
2003-03-25 11:09:29 nzheretic [Reply | View]
For all the talk of .NET's portability and scalablity, Microsoft has not yet been able to port .NET to the 64bit Intel and AMD processors.
The .NET Framework, ASP.NET and even the Common language runtime is not available in 64-bit versions of the Windows Server 2003 family.
Dot Net? Dot Not!
Got Not? Bot Not!
Bit Not? Bit Rot!
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Competition is a good thing
2003-03-24 23:51:28 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
With Intell/Microsoft NOT going 64 bit and Linux moving towards 64 bit support in 2.6 with AMD, there will be a distinct advantage to Linux for enterprise class systems and applications.
The argument that Linux needs to add functionality to become competetive with Microsoft becomes irrelevant as Linux gets more and more functionality where Windows does not follow.
Support for 64 bit is one, GRID support is another. When companies realise they can have all these desktops (running Linux) and use them for processing data as well, spending money on great desktop hardware is less an issue as it pays not only in great interactive performance but also in added infrastructure processing (both 64 bit AND Grid AND the 2.6 kernel will make Linux ZOOM)
Remember, SUSE includes GRID support already for several releases of its distribution! The Linux 2.6 kernel release will propably be out there before Windows 2003.
For programmers programming for GRID there are resources on "how to" at IBM's developpers network. (basic knowledge is knowing to program JAVA..)
Thanks,
Gerard
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