Don’t forget the file rename that occurs when copied from the Archive server. All files there are named by a version number and stored in a folder based on the document id in the DB. So imagine getting a large assembly and its associated files, after copying them, it has to rename them all. Then reverse that on check in.
We’ve already done that twice this year.
So much “save the server costs” vibes
Sorry for the cheap sarcasm
No doubt my server costs are higher. I used to be able replace production server every 5 years, then rotate old servers to dev/test. But now I have to pay for all of them monthly in the cloud. Monthly cloud costs for one year for one server is the same as the 5 year cost of buying a new server. Now there are some infrastructure costs we are saving I suppose. But there is a time lost cost for longer wait times for end users that is difficult to quantify.
jcapriotti there is a lot of cost obfuscation going on, like “a certain CAD package” and its bugs and regressions that cost us in term of lost productivity and damage to our data that require fixing them, but cannot be quantified so we cope silently and brush everything under the carpet.
it is indeed funny how mechanical design and production time and costs are strictly monitored up to X decimal places and still a software running costs are a sort of blackbox as it is offered “as is” with little to no guarantees that may (or may not) work.
Imagine your washing machine tellIng you “sorry today no pants washed. generic error LOL” or your car telling you to change your workflow in the middle of braking…
Your GPS take you around the block for 30 minutes because of “routing error” 
I get it, but honestly I feel all CAD software can be flaky depending on what you’re trying to make it do. I can’t think of one that I’ve used that didn’t misbehave…SolidWorks, Catia, and NX. I’ve played around with Solid Edge but not really used it day to day…I did manage to crash it a few times just trying out features. Catia was old…v4…it would lock up our old unix workstations from time to time. NX didn’t crash as often, but I would get some kind of error that wouldn’t let me save…so still work lost. These were all various older version so no doubt things have changed.
Bandwidth indeed. We had to switch our connection from a 200MB to a 1GB connection after we joined our companies to our server. Having 3 different locations accessing the server requires a lot of bandwith, especially if you start going with remote session and whatnot.