Well, it is 32 bit (though I don't see the index going over 2gb during development). So that shouldn't be a problem.

However, the File System is NFS (as should be expected on WinXP), which may be a problem for Zend_Search_Lucene's use of flock...

What I'm wondering is if I develop locally, can I also test locally? And if I test locally, will flock fail gracefully or throw an error.
If I have to upload stuff to our Linux Dev server to test (which is going to kill my productivity, but oh well) I will.