November 23rd, 2005
Exchange 12 64-bit: Gartner, Directions on Microsoft, and a new Ferris blog entry
Can I claim dibs on being the first non-MS
person to say this sounded like a bad idea? I guess maybe I’m a little
more biased than these…
Peter Pawlack of Directions on Microsoft
is quoted in Information
Week, Analyst Criticizes Microsoft Making Exchange 12 Only 64-Bit :
“Only
a small subset of the Exchange customer base needs the kind of scalability
that 64-bit provides,” he said.“I think Microsoft is creating
as many problems as it’s solving with Exchange 12. If there was some capability
available only in 64-bit, such as a much greater level of security, then
that would be an acceptable reason for going solely with 64-bit.
The
same article quotes Gartner’s Matt Cain and Stephen Kleynhans:
“The
change will make the typical Exchange version migration slower and more
complex”
and on the same story, Ferris
Research’s blog features an alternate view
from Richi Jennings (and input from Julie Farris):
…it’s
illustrative of the fact that Exchange scales relatively poorly in the
real world. This is because it requires quite high disk I/O bandwidths
to read and write its message store database.
A betting
man would say that this is a decision that won’t stick… like so many
other things the Exchange team has announced in the last five years.
Originally by Ed Brill from Ed Brill on November 21, 2005, 3:08pm
