Big Blue is expected to announce servers running 64-bit versions of Linux in the next month.
Full-fledged 64-bit versions of Linux will arrive for IBM servers that previously had to make do with lesser software, Big Blue is expected to announce in the next month.
IBM has enthusiastically embraced Linux over the last two years, but its most powerful servers don't yet take advantage of all that the Linux operating system has to offer. The 32-bit versions of Linux, designed for less powerful 32-bit chips such as Intel's Pentium, can't perform some important server tasks such as holding large databases in memory.
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