Hi all, Server is the platform. I am reading up so please keep em coming and I appreciate the input.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote: > apostolos pantazis wrote: >> These days it seems to be getting harder and harder finding quality >> support under 32 BIT; In some cases vendors have flat out specified >> that the future of support under 32 BIT is grim. Yet the enterprises >> of the world are still running 32 BIT and I am wondering: what is your >> experience in regards to the future of 32 BIT? These days 64 BIT >> hardware seems cheap enough almost making it tempting to begin >> thinking about a migration. The Linux Kernel is mature enough in its >> 64 bit state to support enterprise grade loads. what is everybody >> doing out there? I am trying to get a feel for the direction of the >> industry. Is is too early for 64 bit? your input is appreciated. > > Are we talking workstation or server ? > > I haven't "played" with 64 bit workstation for 1.5 years, and back then the > issues were things like flash pluggins that weren't available, but I expect > that to be changed by now. > > > In the server world I only ran into two issues: > > -64 bit on top of a VM was an issue (I believe that too has been resolved now) > > -All the in house little c programs that had been working great for the past > 10 years needed to be reviewed, often, just recompiled with the right > option, but sometimes some tweaking of some of the variables. > > Beyond that... everything just worked fine. > > > -- > Yves. > http://www.sollers.ca/ > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- Paul _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
