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We are a very small company but in the software biz so the infrastructure is mission-critical. We have decent equipment and very few issues in general. My main worry is the infrastructure of our space - like anything built more than a few years ago, it is short on electricity, cooling, cable management, and physical security (windows+walls). Not a showstopper, yet.
We do have a few "white box" Wintel machines that we use for dev/QA sandboxes - no critical files or apps there. Everything else is racked servers, dual power supplies, dual NICs, etc. The small cost delta it is not worth risking the downtime from cheapskate stuff dying - the commodity hardware isn't even very expensive these days. A few grand buys a pretty robust name-brand box.
The HP 9000 server that was one of our main workhorses for many years was like $85,000 retail when new in 1996. We moved most of its load to a $6,000 Sun in 2003, then I finally replaced the HP in 2004 with another HP machine bought on ebay for $1,600...boy how things change
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