As someone mentioned, I'd invest the extra money, get ESX and install it on the server then virtualize both the Deltek and BES software. You'd have shared backend memory utilization with both Windows and the MSDE instances and you could even throw up a number of other servers when the time came to put something new online. But that's just me. It may require a look at new server hardware in the long run, but stay on the same architecture (Intel/AMD) and you won't have an issue with simply vmotion'ing (or is it converting now) the server from one host server to the other. Honestly, it's the way to go.
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