I was buying ES40s at work around that time for the same reason. It was a lot of memory in one box, and close to the most memory you could stuff in a single rac

I was buying ES40s at work around that time for the same reason. It was a lot of memory in one box, and close to the most memory you could stuff in a single rack. Unfortunately dealing with Compaq sales at the time was horrible. They basically did not know what the web was, or why anyone would want to serve it.