Oh oh I got one.
I visited the “server room” of the organisation responsible for e-healthcare(the software application that was in use by all public hospitals, doctors, and pharmacies in one state of India) as a consultant to learn the following.
Their server room is in an old repurposed residential building on the second floor!
The only ways to get there were either through narrow winding steps, or an ancient metal elevator that creaks and is also made for tiny humans.
IBM managed to sell two Mainframes(Z10) to run their Java apps. The mainframes could not be brought in because of the elevator problem. I kid you not, they brought welders on site to dismantle the racks, and then weld them back again inside the “server room”!
Cooling for the “server room” with two mainframes you ask? A few airconditioners that you’d typically installed at home and a table fan(I don’t know why it was there).
They were concerned about performance issues on their Java applications which were simply “JVM runs out of memory about every day”.
I luckily could bail out of that nightmare and escaped the whole situation.
I could only think about the govt employees who were in charge of purchasing that got to go on fancy vacations paid for by IBM. I obviously don’t know if it’s the case, but my own amusing speculation to explain the irrational purchase.