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Upgrading Office Servers to 64-bit?

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I work for a local water agency and we're considering upgrading our servers (presently dual-32 bit processors) to 64-bit. I was curious as to what input you guys could give on this. What solid platforms are out and what Microsoft software is availible to work with it?
 
It really depends on the class. Are we talking about Itanium or are we talking about Xeon w/EMT64 or Athlon 64 w/x86/64?

What bennifit do you hope to actually gain? Depending on what your doing the only out of box bennifit would be the possibility of increasing the ram up to 16GB. That's it. If you need to run a Microsoft based server that's really all you can hope to expect. Windows XP 64bit is still a ways from being good enough for production. Few hardware drivers exist for 64bit OS's also.

You could go Itanium but that platform has it's specific uses and they aren't exactly running your garden variety copy of Windows.
 
I'd assume you're not thinking about Itaniums; if you needed them & were in a position ot make decisions like this, you'd already know. So you're probably talking about 64-bit Xeons and Opterons.

Since you're running MSFT software, it's not worth doing until MSFT gets a decent release of a 64-bit OS out the door & has it running for a while to get the bugs out. There's no advantage to having a 64-bit CPU if you're still running 32-bit software on a 32-bit OS.

OTOH, if you're looking at upgrading the hardware anyways, it might be a good idea to pick up some 64-bit hardware so you're ready when the software comes All the current 64-bit CPUs are also good at 32-bit work.
 
how about a little stats for your office?

local water company, meaning about 50 personell with a user base of 5000, or 500 people and 50000 customers?

If you are compiling large SQL databases for compiling a 64 bit Unix setup would do you well, but if its for some minor serving you probably would not need to spend the extra cash.

I would say if you are currently running everything on dual processor servers you probably dont need 64 bit anything.
 
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