CNET News reports that Red Hat and Covalent Technologies are developing the Apache Web server for AMD's coming 64-bit Opteron processor

The move will be an important step in making a full complement of software available for the new chip, which is due to arrive in the first half of 2003 and will compete with Intel's Itanium and Xeon products. The companies announced the move at the ApacheCon conference in Las Vegas, taking place a few hotels away from the Comdex trade show.

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