Calling dotNet people

[westernind]

Would any of you kind folks know what would be a minimum spec, and a decent spec, to run a dotNet intranet server? It's not a technology that I'm familiar with - yet - so my google-fu is failing me.

In context, our current intranet server services 1,800 staff. It has a 2.4Gb single processor and Windows2000 (hang on, my home laptop has more power than this box!), and although it happily serves up HTML, the Autonomy search engine alert functionality is dog slow. We need an upgrade, but I don't know what to ask for... and aiming too high will be regarded as a Rule 7 violation.

URLs that I could ping toward The Management would be most welcome.

Comments

[irdm.livejournal.com]

Obvious issue would be the upgrade from W2K soaking masses of power?
Although as a server you can try and turn as much of that off as possible.

The DELL website, as this is all businessy and will want suport?
DELL can still sell Server 2003.
As much memory as you can get it with. Memory good. Well 4GB I guess.
Example here
http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&kc=RS29002&l=en&oc=PE1290R&rbc=PE1290R&s=bsd


Unless you want a linux box?

[irdm.livejournal.com]

You may even get away with this?

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&kc=D4X75501&l=en&oc=X04550XP&rbc=X04550XP&s=bsd

depends how "server" your server needs to be.

[westernind.livejournal.com]

Mille grazie. Gives me a starting point. :-)

Re linux... I haven't yet figured out what other platforms are use here, but the standard is Windows. And this place is hot on standards.