I guess my point is IF the system is slow or certain areas are experiencing issues that should be addressed on the current platform. Hoping that an upgrade will magically make things run better is not the way a server team, DBA team or application team should approach performance issues.
I think we are agreeing. Maybe I didn't say it well...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'