This problem has been massaged and tweaked around in existing products (see on Compaq's Proliant 8500 server, which supports up to 16GB of RAM). The previous poster who bemoaned the need for so much memory has probably never had to deal with a very large database server (or any other application that benefits from extensive caching).
Since pretty much everything is reverse-engineerable with enough effort (and I don't think that I need to prove that there are people out there with way too much time on their hands), is there really any such thing as truly closed source? In any case, obscurity is good security in the same sense that the door locks on your car are: it only keeps out the most casual of intruders. And that's only if you remember to lock all of the doors (yes, this analogy does start to break down, but so does Microsoft Windows).
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This problem has been massaged and tweaked around in existing products (see on Compaq's Proliant 8500 server, which supports up to 16GB of RAM). The previous poster who bemoaned the need for so much memory has probably never had to deal with a very large database server (or any other application that benefits from extensive caching).
Since pretty much everything is reverse-engineerable with enough effort (and I don't think that I need to prove that there are people out there with way too much time on their hands), is there really any such thing as truly closed source? In any case, obscurity is good security in the same sense that the door locks on your car are: it only keeps out the most casual of intruders. And that's only if you remember to lock all of the doors (yes, this analogy does start to break down, but so does Microsoft Windows).