...is a lost art. If it's anything like where I work, programmers are pretty much told "machines are fast, RAM is cheap, HDs are cheap, so don't worry". The lost art of optimization (and by that I don't mean writing weird, ugly unmanageable code - I just mean don't waste resources.)
I'm not seeing the memory usage you're seeing here though. I have Vista Ultimate running several servers (SQL Server 2005 Express, MySQL, Apache, Perforce and a couple of third party services) and I'm just closing in on 1Gb of RAM used - around 900Mb if I'm not mistaken.)
Anyway, I much prefer Vista over XP (no way I'd go back here at home) but yes, you do need more horsepower. My employer is converting to Vista this coming September (around 6000 machines) - a bit of a surprise since we only converted to XP about two years ago. From what I'm told, all tests so far have been satisfactory. We'll see, as I have to test a couple of in-house applications myself (and make changes as needed.)
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