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Besides Supermicro and Chenbro and Dell and HP and IBM and (whats left of) Sun, who else is there to buy from? There doesn't seem to be any other brands anymore.

ASUS makes server mobos, but not cases (I'm not sure who's cases they're using for barebones units), and Antec makes low end server cases, but no barebones, and Intel makes pretty horrid server mobos but use someone else's cases for barebones.



Intel's someone else's cases = Supermicro, usually.

There's Penguin (Linux/HPC), iXsystems (FreeBSD/storage),and Tyan for "server barebones."

Usually I'd just pay these guys to build something: http://www.computerlink.net/


I'm pretty sure iXsystems uses supermicro cases as well, they just put their branding on them.


Apparently, Cisco also makes servers these days. No clue how good they are in any department (performance/reliability/costs), but they exist.




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