jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Sep 6 13:23:25 CDT 2011
LOL, that ancient release is lean and mean. It was designed to run on the platform of the day which was 32 bit, slow processors and 4 gigs of ram max. An interesting history lesson. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/euanga/archive/2006/01/19/514479.aspx We now have 64 bit processors, OSes and SQL Server. > With hardware so cheap today...no excuse not to "move up". Which I am in complete agreement. I am a 1.36 man show, and yet I have a rockin system. I am a developer and as such have access to the action pack which in this specific area is an enormous plus. Still, I do mostly have to buy my own hardware. My strategy was simply to build something and use it, then upgrade and keep the old parts, using them on other systems. At this point I have a dual socket motherboard, dual processors (16 total cores) and 64 gigs of ram. Just that part costs (today) about $1800. While that isn't chump change, plenty of rich kids spend that on their super duper Intel processor and a video card for gaming. My server supports SQL Server in a style that helps the work get done quickly. My client has 25 people in the database, they pay probably 40K or more a *month* in salary for those users. From my perspective it is insane to quibble about a one time cost of $20K (good for at least 5 years) to buy a power server to run the data side of that business. 4K a year to support 25 employees costing you a half million a year in salary is a pretty darned good deal. I actually spend about 4K a year just to support my 1.36 person company, and I consider that a good deal. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 9/6/2011 1:32 PM, Mark Simms wrote: >> >> I do agree with Arthur however, you would be well served to just go >> with 2008. 2000 is very old. >> > That being said....I was at one shop....and they were paranoid to upgrade > even to 2005 because of potential performance degradation. > IOW: that ancient release was kind of lean-and-mean for the hardware they > were running. > With hardware so cheap today...no excuse not to "move up". > > >