Where do I start

1) Wot's a transaction, then? What exactly are you measuring here, and do you mean (as is often meant when transactions are mentioned) to persistent backing store? Difficult, at microsecond times.

2) "...costs between $7,500 and $10,000 per machine...". And I just bought 2 gig of server memory for £25. so, 20 * £25 = £500 on the nail for 40 gig of memory. Inc tax, delivery, retail not bulk. About $710.

3) Native mem is going to be a touch quicker than sucking it off a remote machine.

5) Or you could consider having machines with different sized memories and moving the *application* around instead to follow the workload.

6) I give up.

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No more of these silly articles for me.