Exchange 2007 does require a lot of resources, and people often ask me why that is. Microsoft really made a very scalable and highly flexible messaging system in Exchange 2007. The ability to handle thousands of mailboxes, unified communications and voice recognition can take a lot of resources.

Making Exchange 2007 64 BIT uses resources efficiently and allows the software to access a lot more memory. Right, Exchange 2007 will eat up a good chunk of memory.

But, don’t let it scare you, some of the functionality in Exchange 2007 as it pertains to voice is awesome. I have a system running in production for a while now and I’ve had a lot of callers ask me what voice system we have. Exchange 2007 handles voice recognition very well. I have yet to have someone say anything bad about voice recognition capability of the system.

What’s more, you can have Exchange read you your mailbox contents. All this takes lot of processing, and when it comes to voice you need to have everything in memory that you need to process (so you need lot of RAM). I say try it, you will be impressed!