Product Studio didn’t have a limit of 32,767 records. It used a three-tier architecture for improved reliability and flexibility. It supported file attachments!
Product Studio served as the primary bug-tracking database for many years. But even with its improved architecture, you often ran into cases where the app stopped responding and simply told you “There was an error contacting the middle tier.”
I liked to joke that we should just get rid of that middle tier. It’s always the one that’s causing problems.

https://devblogs.microsoft....0200317-00/?p=103566
В духе майкрософтера Рэймонда Чена всегда жил маленький линуксоид.