Thursday, 17 May 2007

Java Standard Edition to be Supported for Itanium 2-based Systems

The Itanium Solutions Alliance commends Sun Microsystems and Intel Corporation, a Founding Sponsor of the Itanium Solutions Alliance, on their cooperation to deliver Sun's Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) for Itanium 2-based solutions. Intel is porting and optimising the code, and support is expected to be included as part of a standard update for Java SE 6 available from Sun next year.

The availability of this support will ensure the write once, run anywhere philosophy, which helped make the Java Platform a widely-used development environment, continues to extend to developers working on Itanium-based systems. This support for Intel Itanium architecture is expected to increase the availability of Java-based software and broaden solutions choices for end users.

Itanium-based solutions have shown strong market opportunity and solution support in recent years, spurred by a USD 10 billion joint investment announced by the Itanium Solutions Alliance Founding Sponsors in January 2006 and the release of the Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor 9000 series in July 2006. Today, there are more than 12,000 Itanium-based applications available from over 2,000 vendors and Itanium-based systems are currently deployed in more than three quarters of the Global 100 Corporations.