Scale your apps to 64-bit computing

Now that 64-bit versions of chips and operating systems have been available for a while, which applications justify the upgrades? Large-scale databases and multi-user applications are the two categories which demand the most memory. Messaging and graphics applications are a close second. Users are finding some glitches during upgrades from 32-bit hardware, but those are easily fixed.

For more on the hardware trend:
- see this InfoWorld article