Today we published an article by Peter Shaw that combines old hardware, Linux and some DIY gumption to put a Sun Netra T1 105 server that was gathering dust back to work.

There's still a lot of information floating around for these old machines, and many of them are still in good working order. In the past I've resurrected Cobalt Raq3's, Sun Netra's, and more recently some older Dell PowerEdge and IBM Netfinity servers. Doing a search in Google for the Netra turned up a lot of useful sites who have a lot of information on old Sun hardware a good one is Obsolyte.

So if your IT budget's been slashed, have a good look around. You might not be able to cobble together a cutting edge, customer-facing e-commerce server. But you can recycle an old server and fill some application or messaging gaps.

Read the full article here.