Lots of Aeron chairs, Sun workstations and servers could be picked up for pennies in the dollar from the various liquidation auctions. With cheap equipment and

Lots of Aeron chairs, Sun workstations and servers could be picked up for pennies in the dollar from the various liquidation auctions. With cheap equipment and lots of smart people looking for work, several businesses got their start in the aftermath. For a while I worked for a systems integration firm. Their playbook was to buy surplus servers, pull RAM, disks from some to build even beefier servers and sell them at a discount on new prices. Used the remaining parts for spares as required. By servers I mean Sun, HP and IBM systems selling for tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands $ each.