I'm considering getting an Opteron. With this being a 64bit CPU I wondered if there would be any issues with using WINE to make use of win32 software on this 64bit CPU.
There are no issues.
SUSE LINUX 9.0 for AMD64 is capable of running all WINE products, including regular WINE, CrossOver Office, CrossOver Plugin and WineX in the 32bit compat mode.
Okay, I read that to mean that you can run already built 32 bit binary versions of Wine.
What about compiling? Would compiling Wine on an Opteron work? Hmm. I suppose you could cross compile to 32 bit, couldn't you.