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Ted Mittelstaedt writes:

> Do you always buy new cars?  New homes?

Yes.  And new PCs.

> If you were tasked with going out and buying Windows server hardware
> and you had a maximum of $200 to spend, you would be pretty stupid to
> go down to Fry's and get one of their $199 on-sale computers when you
> could go spend the $200 on a used HP server that cost $9000 when it
> was new and has a full set of SCSI disks in it and probably a
> tapedrive. Sure the HP server is slow - but in that environment the
> reliability is more important than the speed.

But at least I could be reasonably sure that Windows would be able to
use the machine.  I can't be that confident with other operating
systems.

-- 
Anthony