I cant but ask myself how some softwares are built. If softwares developers are architects, by now the world would have run out of space.
Flex builder 425Mb VS Netbeans(the whole package. php, java, j2ee+struts+jsf, uml, css+javascript+html, python, javafx, c/c++ etc) 200+Mb
Flex builder Eclipse Plugin 300MB VS Ark Linux(whole operatiing system) 200+Mb
Flex Builder Linux eclipse plugin 177Mb VS Netbeans6.5 for javafx 65Mb
Acrobat 9(a dvd. thats a massive 4gigg) VS Sumatra pdf reader(less than 5mb) Open Office can create pdf, Okular can do all the other funky stuffs a pdf reader can/should do(okular + openoffice is less than 500Mb)
This just got me thinking, and I am only thinking aloud.
