By providing custom systems, we avoid placing our customers on the treadmill of new computer purchases each year. A treadmill that helps propriety system builders to force yearly upgrades.

The downsides of proprietary system design are multiple and limiting:

• Customers are forced to scrap and replace their computers more often, whether they need to or not.
• Inherent limitations in designs such as power supply size, cooling provisions, drive bays, and security are often a problem.
• Desirable features such as redundant power, choices of component types and brands, and deletion of unwanted components are usually unavailable.
• Many features are often unavailable, except in so-called "higher end" models. Often this forces the buyer to purchase a much more expensive computer than they need, so that they may benefit from a single desired feature.

• Enclosures (desktop to rackmount, compact to large server).
• CPUs (Alpha, Athlon, Pentium and others).
• Power supplies (single redundant, hot-swappable).
• Storage components and interfaces.
• Network interfaces (Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Myrinet, Wulfkit, fibrechannel, etc.).
• Video (from single to multi-headed display).
• Operating Systems (Linux, FreeBSD, Unix, Open VMS, Windows 2000).
• Other components as desired.

Systems