From: John R Pierce Sent: January 17, 2012 13:17 > > penny wise, and pound foolish comes to mind here. that older server > probably has 1-2 single core processors, too, right? a 2 > socket modern > 2U could virtualize a dozen of those and outperform each one. This may be true in your environment but I have hardware that is capable of doing the job that I am looking for so why should I buy new hardware? I would never get approval for the purchase because there is no way that I could justify the expenditure. Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com