Fortune 500 companies typically standardize hardware, so people who say they can buy this from here, that from there, one more thing from eBay are rediculous.

Also, to those who say small businesses can't afford this, its really an option. Some places like open source hodgepodges of hardware and some do not because their small business generates enough money that investing in enterprise class hardware with gold 4 hour response from a solid company with a history of UNIX experience and integration with Solaris.

Also, said Fortune 500 companies get massive discounts, as what you're seeing is retail price.

you get what you pay for?

1) ungzip and untar on GNU and non-GNU systems
tar xf filename.tar | gzip -dc -

2) how to do a command for MANY files at once
/bin/sh cd /directory/with/files for i in *gz do gzip -d $i done