[StreamBright]

Same here. Some projects I work on:

- please put this broken crap of 15 services written in 6 different programming languages on a 50 node cluster so we can read and write data with 300 kbit/s.

2 years later:

- could you do something about this cluster, it costs us too much.

[cudgy]

Some companies may not have even existed 2 years later if they spent the money and time earlier to optimize.

[StreamBright]

We are talking about 10+ years old companies. I quite often save significant amount of money for such companies which could have been saved from the beginning by not doing something completely silly.