[ale] little rant

[DJ-Pfulio]

It isn't just Exchange.
Zimbra used to require 1G of RAM.
Then 1.5G
Then 2G
now the current release has 8G as the minimum required (not true, but ...)

Back in the olden days, supported hardware was very restricted for Linux. When
you only support 5 pieces of hardware, being smaller is easier.

I'm not trying to say that current OSes aren't bloated, just that it matters
less and less as cheap HW is available.  SW dev time is much more expensive than
HW at this level - unless the device is consumer and has 20M installations. I've
done some similar math and found it frustrating how expensive bad software can be.

On 04/01/2015 02:59 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> One of the things I learned early in the PC days was that every hardware advance
> to increase resources to help software performance was always followed by
> “enhancements” to the software that took every bit of new resource and begged
> for more.
> 
>  
> 
> One of my favorites was MS Exchange 2010 that decided you should assign as much
> space to each node of a cluster (i.e. duplicate space) rather than share the
> same SAN space on both nodes as earlier Exchange clusters did.   Why “Because
> disk storage has gotten cheap”. 
> 
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