Sun plans to release its Sun Studio 10 development tool,
which includes support for 64-bit applications running on AMD
Opteron and Nocona processors, before the end of the
year.
Sun Studio is intended to make it easier for customers to
migrate to the Solaris 10 operating system, which also is due to
ship later this year.
The tool supports C, C++, and Fortran developers on Solaris,
complementing Sun's Java-based offerings. Sun already supports
64-bit Sparc systems in the current Sun Studio tool.
"If you use those open source compilers, you will run 60% slower
than applications compiled with Sun Studio," said Joe Keller, Sun
vice-president of marketing for the Java web services and tools
group. "That's like wasting half a machine."
As part of its pursuit of the Wall Street financial market Sun
is setting up a Wall Street-specific Sun Developer Advisory
Council which will have its first meeting in October, and a "Tech
Days on Wall Street" developer conference is planned for
November.
Paul Krill writes for Infoworld
