Posted on 07/30/2002 10:34:40 PM PDT by JameRetief
AMD confirms IBM DB2 Hammer support
Corporate migration easier, says IBM
By : Tuesday 30 July 2002, 20:58
AMD confirmed the story in a release which said a DB2 database using SuSE Linux was successfully ported to X86-64 technology in just a few days.
The news is good for AMD and indicates positiive application software support for its Opteron servers, due to be launched next year.
The chip firm said that using X86-64 architecture will mean faster query response times and improved data loading/unloading in AMD server configurations.
IBM endorsed the move too, saying that DB2 running on an Opteron will give corporate enterprise customers a simplified X86 based migration path.
That's a slight dig at Intel's Itanium processor from IBM, we guess.
Intel's friend HP doesn't think migrating to Itanium is a problem at all, judging from this piece of spin here.
That's not what the Aberdeen Group, Intel's sometime friend, says here, however. This piece says that the Itanium "will require careful re-tuning and selective re-writing of a large mass of IA-32 Windows or Unix based existing code".
Migration involves 100,000 lines of code, four to six months, and something like $821,000 in costs including capital and labour costs.
As that minx Eva Glass might utter: "Sheesh!"
Rumours have circulated in the industry for several weeks that IBM may well introduce eight way Hammer servers itself, which would be a real boost for AMD, when the processors arrive. µ
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