I'm currently working on a proposal to get my dept. (research and development) our own server, I want *nix like you would not believe. I want to run native(read unix-style) perl to do some networked database work. While I won't get into the intricacies of why we need our own server to do this, let me just assure you that with the volume of data we are dealing with, it would disrupt normal company operation to do anything else.
Does anyone know where I can find this kind of information.. I've been scraping the web all afternoon with minimal success.