BizTalk 2004 memory requirements
Of course, Microsoft recommend that you have shedloads of memory when running BizTalk 2004. I'm not surprised. It's a big, beefy server. However, many developers - myself included - like to install servers on their own PC in order to muck around with them big time.
As I may have mentioned in earlier postings, I have installed BizTalk 2004 on my laptop. It's got 256Mb of RAM. This is 50% of Microsoft's recommended minimum.
Did the install program complain? No it did not.
Does BizTalk run? Yes it does.
Does it run fast? No. But it's acceptable, and once a deployed orchestration is cached up and had one or two transactions piped through it, BizTalk runs just fine.
I have ordered more memory, though. 638Mb here we come.