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Ironically even the Java fans that I know have generally bad things to say about VA, but it seems to have a strange appeal to the PHBs...

Anyways, you might try to find someone who has used it extensively and can give you a view from the trenches about its true resource requirements, instability, bugs, etc. (That person would not be me, but it should not be too hard to find someone, I know that several at IWETHEY liked complaining about it.)