My dot com experience was selling data center software to the Nortel/Worldcom/Qwest dark fiber crowd who at that time had unlimited money to spend.
My demo setup was a Tadpole SPARC Ultrabook that I lugged around to sales meetings as a server (along with a regular laptop for the client connected together with a crossover Ethernet cable. Can’t tell you how much fun it was flying carrying around 50 lbs of laptops). I thought it was cool that it ran native Solaris on a portable laptop. It also cost close to $20 grand.
