MS SharePoint Server 2010 preliminary system requirements announced

So far, there is not very much news, but of the important, these can be mentioned:

• Support for IE 6 ceases . He nevertheless comes nearer to his end, one cannot but rejoice at this. Will support IE 7 and 8, FF 3.0, will work on better support for Safari 3.0
• MS Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) will be entirely 64-bit , that is, versions for 32-bit processors will not be released at all. However, this is old news.
• Only the 64-bit version of SQL Server 2005/2008 can be used as a database .

The decision regarding the support of only the 64-bit version of SQL Server is explained by the fact that, based on tests and observations of live projects, it became clear that the 64-bit database affects the speed of MOSS and its scalability so much that they decided not to insert 32-bit support. Ever since MOSS 2007, everyone was constantly advised to use the 64-bit version of SQL Server. Well, the reason iron companies update, yes.

References

• Original post: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/07/announcing-sharepoint-server-2010-preliminary-system-requirements.aspx
• What is MOSS (MS Office Sharepoint Server): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_SharePoint_Server

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