Exchange 12 64-bit: Gartner, Directions on Microsoft, and a new Ferris blog entry

Can I claim dibs on being the first non-MSperson to say this sounded like a bad idea?  I guess maybe I'm a littlemore biased than these...Peter Pawlack of Directions on Microsoftis quoted in InformationWeek, Analyst Criticizes Microsoft Making Exchange 12 Only 64-Bit :"Onlya small subset of the Exchange customer base needs the kind of scalabilitythat 64-bit provides," he said. "I think Microsoft is creatingas many problems as it's solving with Exchange 12. If there was some capabilityavailable only in 64-bit, such as a much greater level of security, thenthat would be an acceptable reason for going solely with 64-bit. Thesame article quotes Gartner's Matt Cain and Stephen Kleynhans:"Thechange will make the typical Exchange version migration slower and morecomplex" and on the same story, FerrisResearch's blog features an alternate viewfrom Richi Jennings (and input from Julie Farris): ...it'sillustrative of the fact that Exchange scales relatively poorly in thereal world. This is because it requires quite high disk I/O bandwidthsto read and write its message store database.A bettingman would say that this is a decision that won't stick... like so manyother things the Exchange team has announced in the last five years.