Re:Timing is everything (Score 1)

When you can upgrade hardware for $2000 and achieve the same result with $20,000 in development costs that makes sense but it doesn't always work that way.

I've been in situations where we had over $20 million in hardware and we have increased performance or scalability by 50% with no additional hardware. In this case it was not even close when comparing the cost of hardware, licensing, and additional administrator capacity to the software devleopment time.