SharePoint Team Announces SharePoint 2010 Preliminary System Requirements
Highlights
The next version of SharePoint will officially be called SharePoint 2010. It was announced today that SharePoint 2010 will have the following system requirements:
- SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only.
- SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.
- SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.
This Upgrade Checker can be used to help ensure WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 installations will easily upgrade to SharePoint 2010.
Reference: Read More on SharePoint Team Blog