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AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processor News
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AMD CEO Hector Ruiz Stresses The Value Of Collaboration At LinuxWorld Keynote
— Highlights Compatibility and Open Standards as
Design Objectives —
NEW YORK — Jan. 22, 2003 — — AMD (NYSE: AMD) President and Chief Executive Officer Hector Ruiz opened the LinuxWorld 2003 conference today by asserting that early and open collaboration with partners and customers are the critical drivers of true innovation, and praised the Linux community’s commitment to compatibility and open standards as design objectives that put the customer first.
“In order to foster and take part in true innovation, we in the semiconductor industry cannot continue to operate on a ‘business as usual’ basis,” stated Ruiz. “I think we have to consider a new business model, one that is more collaborative and more connected – more like that of the Linux and open source community. Linux serves as a consistent reminder for the semiconductor industry that the needs of our companies should never outweigh the needs of our customers.”
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AMD Announces Beta Availability of IBM DB2 Database Software Running SuSE Linux For Upcoming AMD Opteron™ Processors
NEW YORK — Jan. 22, 2003 — At LinuxWorld, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced beta availability of the 64-bit version of IBM's DB2 Universal Database software for servers based on the upcoming
AMD Opteron™ processor. A demonstration of DB2 database software running on the SuSE Linux operating system with AMD Opteron processors will be featured at the AMD LinuxWorld booth.
IBM DB2 version 8 for Linux, the first database software to support the AMD Opteron processor platform, is now available to AMD-managed partners in a beta version. DB2 for Linux running on systems based on AMD Opteron processors is designed to provide enterprise customers native access to DB2's 64-bit database environment, while providing backward compatibility with existing 32-bit applications. Customers will be capable of incrementally migrating to a 64-bit environment, optimizing their 32-bit investment and performance while capitalizing on the power of 64-bit computing.
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