Is firing the server team an option? I am running IIS and Apache on my machine (home dualcore Intell PC purchased 4 years ago) as well as MySQL server and many other applications. I have only 2GB of RAM available - I can still see SWFs, no problem. (And I can play recent 3D shooter games while doing it). This all said, I don't know what did this development team measure, but I would be afraid to give them measuring tools in the future. ;)
PS. Sorry, I didn't mean to be mean, I was just reading a lot of Dilbert lately :P
