Today, applications are developed to be geared toward a specific platform or hosting environment, for example Linux, Windows 2000, various UNIX flavors, mainframes, J2EE, Microsoft .NET and so on. Such computing tends to operate within a monolithic framework in which applications contend for resources as and when they're made available for that single platform. For a platform with limited resources, the resource availability starts decreasing as the demand for service grows.

Source: Linux Journal
Full Story: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7378

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