Your goal should not be to get the fastest and hottest machine available
on the market, but to define and deploy a well-balanced messaging architec-
ture based on Microsoft Exchange and Windows Server. Windows Server
2003 SP1 has significant enhancements related to Microsoft Exchange
2003 and its deployment. Nonetheless, the biggest (scale-up) scalability
improvement will not occur until Microsoft Exchange can run native in 64-
bit mode and take advantage of physical memory for caching larger quanti-
ties of its database in cache, therefore diminishing the frequency of rela-
tively slow I/O access.
Finally, you should ...
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