[ale] little rant

[Chuck Payne]

I run a firewall off of a 4 GB USB dirve.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> 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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