On 23/05/11 13:36, Tim Green wrote:
So long as the server is x64 and not Itanium there shouldn't be anything stopping you running the 32bit app on your 64bit server. MS Office 2010 is still 32bit and runs fine on x64.
That's why I thought too, hence ordering the server with Foundation R2 in the first place. Unfortunately the application (which is an industrial application from around 2005) disagrees, and a number of things don't work - the solution being to upgrade the application (not cheap and not without quite a lot of work).
What is annoying is that I don't need any of 2008's server capabilities; it will simply be running this one application, it just needs to run reliably on the server hardware, for which it was agreed that 2008 was a better choice than (say) Win7 Pro.
Regardless, the driver-chase seems to still be far more prevalent on Windows than Linux, and it's silly things like being told next-to-nothing about the hardware to assist in that search - sure you can get PCI vendor and device ID's if you know where to look, but Linux would have mapped them to the vendor and device names for me instead of making me go hunting. Windows is very much designed to be installed by the hardware vendor, and if the user re-installs then for them to do so from a vendor supplied disk.