theburner : Not a problem building my own, I just happen to really like the Proliant line of servers, and the folks I'm doing this server work for have been burned (no pun intended) by some shops on their servers, so I wanted to get them a really solidly designed server for once. I wouldn't get a desktop or laptop, but damn, I do like the Proliant line. Or at least I did.
Anyway, to make the joke complete, they shipped the tape drive to the server. Not the server, just the tape drive for it. And their trying to invoice the whole server now. So I've got what may be the worlds most expensive tape drive.
Also, I talked to a friend of mine who's a reseller, and he said he had thousands of dollars worth of build to order systems waiting for HP.
Looks like the merger may not be quite complete, after all.