MS Exchange 12 WILL require a hardware upgrade
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In the typical MS rip and replace methodology it has been officially announced that MS Exchange 12 will only be available for 64bit operating systems ( or should that be system as in singular MS Windows 2003 64bit ). The 64bit version of MS Exchange has shown IO up to 75% faster when compared to existing Exchange 2003 servers.
And it's not just the Exchange server that needs to be ripped and replaced, to get full performance benefits of the increased IO it's also recommended that you upgrade your global catalog server to 64bit also.
So for existing Exchange shops that have been looking forward to upgrading to Exchange 12 when it's available in early 2007 make sure you have plenty of hardware budget also or, of course, you could just migrate to Lotus Domino 7 today and use what ever hardware you want for your servers and by the time you do get around to replacing your hardware with 64bit based processors I'm sure there will be a 64bit version of Lotus Domino ready to be installed.
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In the typical MS rip and replace methodology it has been officially announced that MS Exchange 12 will only be available for 64bit operating systems ( or should that be system as in singular MS Windows 2003 64bit ). The 64bit version of MS Exchange has shown IO up to 75% faster when compared to existing Exchange 2003 servers.
And it's not just the Exchange server that needs to be ripped and replaced, to get full performance benefits of the increased IO it's also recommended that you upgrade your global catalog server to 64bit also.
So for existing Exchange shops that have been looking forward to upgrading to Exchange 12 when it's available in early 2007 make sure you have plenty of hardware budget also or, of course, you could just migrate to Lotus Domino 7 today and use what ever hardware you want for your servers and by the time you do get around to replacing your hardware with 64bit based processors I'm sure there will be a 64bit version of Lotus Domino ready to be installed.
