why an old operating system

[prad]

in our search for servers we contacted genstor (on the freebsd
compatible hardware list) and a very nice fellow talked to us and sent
us a quote. it was out of our price range, but i was very puzzled to see
that the brand new and powerful system they were putting together was
going to be operating with freebsd 5.4

why would a new system such as this be supplied with such an old os?

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