What benefits will software developers see from Suns investment in AMD Opteron architecture?
Having an optimized 64-bit implementation of Solaris for the AMD Opteron architecture opens up the possibility to build new applications exploiting the linear 64-bit address space – something which has previously not been feasible on 32 bit x86 systems. In addition, the 64 bit kernel will provide seamless operation of existing x86 32-bit binaries.