For the same reasons any 64-bit application is desirable, to be able to address more than 4G of VM. Although in this case it's not a particular app but the JVM for Java apps so in theory a64-bit JVM ...

Two months after Java 6 update 10 was released, Sun has just released update 11. For many users the new version will automatically be detected and installed, but you can always get it from the Sun ...

There’s been a lot of talk from hardware vendors about 64-bit ARM servers, but without software the fledgling platform won’t get very far. Several big vendors made announcements this week that show ...