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“The relational database engine is actually one of the few applications that requires 64-bit computing today, or yesterday indeed. We find that a two gig file limit is not sufficient for running database systems on, nor is a four gig memory address space. So obviously since machines are now shipping where half a terabyte of RAM isn’t uncommon, we want to make use of that by loading as much of the data from the database into RAM as possible, then you’ve got much faster computation of some of the database queries.”


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“We find that a lot of the companies that we deal with are large enterprise clients that have actually grown through acquisition the same way that CA did. So they tend to be platform agnostic in that they run a little bit of everything throughout the enterprise, which is why we wind up in situations where we’re doing over a dozen 64-bit ports. We had supported that same version over two dozen platforms, because our client base needs it.”


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"[S]o we have Advantage Ingres clients who want to move to 64-bit operating systems, and I think that the database is one of the unique applications that today has a need for a 64-bit environment. Databases need 64-bit file addressing, so that we can blow the four gig limit on a database file, and they need 64-bit memory addressing to blow the two-gig cache limit on some operating systems...."