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To: Epinephrine who wrote (96150)	3/1/2000 7:29:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576380

Any company that is running a database large enough to need 64 bits wouldn't only be using 1/4 of the power of the server and if they did start to use more than 1/2 of the power of the server on a regular basis they would probably add another server to bring down peak capacity demand, the faster the server and the more power it has the better. I am assuming that 64bit hardware will be readily available and not much more expensive. Why not go for 64bit even if you don't necesarily need it? Your question actually says it all (middle tier). You don't want to run your middle tier components on your backend database server. As far as application partitioning, it is logical. Each logical tier can run on it's own dedicated hardware tier, but it is not a requirement. 64 bits is extreme, if a company is going to 64 bits just to have the latest thing then you may have a point but in the real world any company that needs 64 bits isn't going to have a problem with exclusively running their database on a dedicated server which brings me back to my original question... If I have a 64 bit database running on a 64 bit OS on a dedicated server what do I need 32 bits for? People buy more hardware than they need. Hardware is cheap. How many people need 850 MHz CPUs? People buy more hardware than they need because the premium is not that high. The one thing that may slow down or sink all the 64bit CPUs is software licensing. If Microsoft makes it the same as say their upcomming Datacenter product, they will mortally wound Itanium and Sledgehammer. Anyway, one box is far less complex than 2 or more, and if you have one or more powerful CPUs, it may be a better choice. More boxes introduce latency of the networking. This latency is several orders of magnitude larger than latency of 2 programs communicating on the same machine, in-process or out-of-process communication. Joe