SQL Server 2005 adds AMD Opteron support

by Allison Taylor

July 27, 2004 —

Microsoft Corp. announced on Monday that it would add support for Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD) Opteron to its next release of SQL Server, due out in 2005, providing customers with simultaneous 32- and 64-bit computing. The company also announced the release of the second beta version of SQL Server 2005.

For Tim Kelly, distributed technology director with TSYS in Columbus, Georgia, having support for 64-bit computing will provide more options for his company to fully realize 64-bit processing. TSYS, which is a third-party credit card processor, is looking for performance increases with SQL Server

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