Hello,
Have you considered looking at Sun's AMD offerings, they have a AMD line, the V20z and V40z, they are quite spiffy, they are basically Newisys boxes, they have licensed this technology. They have another design going on around the AMD chips called Galaxy which is still to appear. This will be a full Sun design. Don't quote me on this Galaxy bitty.
IBM has also got AMD64 offerings, HP has ditched the Itanic 2 and jumped in a hurry onto the AMD64 wagon. I believe that the EMT64 techology in the Intel chips are licensed from AMD ??? I think so. So you should be able to run Red Hat 64 or Fedora Core 64 bit on it.
The AMD64 chips should run your 32bit software without hassle. I think that you should be okay. But if it is over the next 18months I am sure that there will much more improvements on the AMD64 area. Sun should have their V80z out by then too. They are pushing the AMD64 platform quite hard.
Cheers,
Aly. -- Aly Dharshi aly.dharshi@xxxxxxxxx
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