OT: New server build

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

It's about that time again - need to build a new server to fun fP for our
company here

We are a call center and have approx. 60 users using putty to access the
system, so we have a large fP license.....

Currently, we have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running CentOS 5.10

Two Intel Xeon Processors 3.6MHz that are running at 3.2MHz per dmidecode
4GB RAM

Running hardware RAID with total of 4 drives....operating system mirrored
and data mirrored
Also backup to tape using Dell 122T LTO tapes - which I know for new
capacities isn't going to work - so want to make sure our newer Linux will
support backup to larger tapes (LTO6 most likely)

We do run a lot of backend things as well that utilize Python, Perl, etc

Wondering if we should move to CentOS 7 most current build, etc and what if
any issues I may encounter? Or is there a better/faster version of Linux
that users have switched to?

I do have time on this - will probably look to do this beginning of 2nd
quarter this year sometime..

Just looking for recommended specs, RAM, CPU's etc......

TIA

Scott
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