04 Oct 08 32-bit vs 64-bit ; SharePoint Administration Toolkit download stats from Zach Rosenfield on MSDN

Zach Rosenfield, the program manager for MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint server) at Microsoft posted some interesting download stats for the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit – despite the 64-bit version being available for quite a while now, the 32-bit downloads still surpass the x64 version by almost 4 to 1. This is even as recently as September!

Zach provides some interesting (and pretty logical) reasons to go 64-bit with SharePoint and all it’s related componentry …

I wonder, though, if doesn’t reflect a more cautious approach on the part of enterprise customers in putting x64 versions of Windows Server 2003 and 2008 into production environments.

Related posts:

1. SharePoint for Project Management ; nice deck & video presentation by Dux Raymond at 2008 PMI Global Congress

Tags: 64-bit, SharePoint, Software