haha, When I was new to IT in Silicon Valley in 1997, we bought a bunch of clone servers from Colfax International - dual pentium II something-or-others, based

haha, When I was new to IT in Silicon Valley in 1997, we bought a bunch of clone servers from Colfax International - dual pentium II something-or-others, based on Super Micro mobos. We were running Windows NT with SQL Server as well as Linux (the founders of Linux Care, Dave Sifry and Art Tide set them up - we were doing EDI with sun, and were one of the first companies to use XML for the docs, which were manufacturing orders for copies of Sun OS -- we physically manufactured all their software (cd, manuals, boxes etc, and dropped shipped them to the customer) Anyway - after a few months we were having HORRID problems with the colfax boxes always locking up. They were about 12 or 14,000 bucks each at the time - which was insanely expensive for what we were getting. I think they had like a gig or ram or something small. We also had AS/400s which were many more times that, but that was for the JDE ERP system... We tried to work through the problems with Colfax, and finally called a meeting with them. They came in and my manager asks, "Colfax.... Colfax International. Where are your offices?" CI: "Sunnyvale." US: "So, any other offices" CI: "Nope - we are all based in the US" US: "I see, any international customers?" CI: "Nope, all in the bay area" US: "So why do you call yourselves "international"" CI: "...." --- Anyway, we ended up scrapping the boxes as high end IT workstations and bought name brand systems. Last time I bought clone HW. We even had some of the first VA Linux and Penguin systems -- when they were barely seen as anything but clones...