Hi Mark,
when I saw a powerpoint stating the environment necessary for Navigator, I instantly had the feeling that this is way too complicated to get running en passant and posed the question why HP doesn't provide it as a Virtual Appliance. It was considered a Good Idea(tm) but I don't know if it made it into the relevant channels. I still think a VA is the only way to go here. We can probably not change the architecture (the philosophy of siloing database brainbugs below Java application servers eating whatever resources you throw at them seems to be the thing the current developer generation prefers to crank out), but at least it could be offered in a digestable form factor. I'm not from a Windows background and I really like to work on Linux, but those silos are as alien to me as they are to you and I don't want to waste a week(end) smithing one together, either ;)
An"16 Gigs is recommended"dre.