Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:05 PM
It really stuck home today how much 64bit is a big deal.
Our strategy is to move forward to 64bit in one of our companies as its pretty much ‘brown field’ after recent acquisition. Forward thinking requires our decisions to have a little extra longevity specially if you are making a sizable investment, we want ours moneys worth, so, the ‘bang for buck’ ratio comes into play so therefore 64bit is a clear winner.
So this morning I discovered two 16bit applications with 400 users. The 16bit applications will happily play in a 32bit environment, infact no-one's the wiser unless they use task manager and see what program is running under ‘wowexec’. But 16bit applications will not run under 64bit. So these applications will need to be recompiled to 32bit or rewritten.
As the code is 10 years old and written in VB3 I made the decision to re-write the applications using the existing applications as the template and business requirement.
Anyway it dawned on me that 64bit will generate a sizable wave in the industry and it may be time for you to find out what is running under wowexec now so you can make your plan.