Originally Posted by
Omar
Nice, glad your company can't afford to give you more than 4GB of memory. However, it's not a super common situation considering software engineer salaries and such; asking for a few more gigabytes of memory is generally the least of their concerns, especially if it increases your productivity. Everywhere I've worked, even in Russia, I've always just been able to request more resources.
That's not really the point, though. The point is that people in RSPS /don't/ use virtualization for that purpose, generally. What is infinitely more common is people renting cheap Windows virtual servers and then using them as both a development and production environment. They'll be running their live server through things like Eclipse debug mode because they don't know any better.
I feel like I am repeating myself. Again: there is a big difference between using a VM that you can snapshot, distribute to your coworkers, etc, and misusing some Windows VPS that you've rented.