Hardware upgrade + ECC 5.0 Verus Hardware upgrade + ECC 6.0

Hi all,

We're currently on 32BIT Windows 2000 SQL2000 ECC 5.0. We're considering a hardware/OS upgrade to bring us to 64bit Windows 2003/(Maybe 08) SQL05.

The question is, obviously we'll have to implement our ECC on this new hardware. Should we stick with ECC 5.0 or should we consider a bigger implementation by moving to ECC 6.0?

We do have an ECC 6.0 Upgrade planned next year, and according to our previous record with "all together" HardwareO/SDB+APP Implementations we'd like to think it's better to stick with ECC 5.0 for now and then have the ECC upgrade by itself next year.

What are your thoughts? Would sticking with ECC 5.0 a good idea? Would it save us a lot more time?

Thanks in advance,

Samer