Reading this I was amazed that the cheapskate place I worked ~89-92 shelled out to get us a Netware server, considering the crappy hardware they had us develope

Reading this I was amazed that the cheapskate place I worked ~89-92 shelled out to get us a Netware server, considering the crappy hardware they had us developers working on. But then I just realized that we were probably running on a pirated copy. The company was a PC builder that wanted to get into software, but they also did some services work like installing Netware. They were a fairly sizable local operation until one day when they won a large bid for computers for the local University by bidding based on a projected continuing drop in components, and then an unexpected supply problem pushed prices significantly up. This was after I left the company, but they seemed to go bankrupt basically overnight.