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.
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