"We got this far without infrastructure, just with good coaches and people, " says Igor Stimac.

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When Gary Stimac visited a little Dallas outfit called RocketLogix in October of 2000, he was transfixed.

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"I said to myself, 'This is the first major change to server technology in the last ten years, ' " Stimac recalls.

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Now Stimac was staring at a device that could do the same thing to the server market that his servers had done to DEC.

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But Stimac was more excited by what had been left out of the server: There were no connections for a keyboard, mouse or CD-ROM drive.

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"Stimac and Mihajlovic have a long dislike of each other, stemming from the 1991 Yugoslav Cup Final between Hajduk Split and Red Star Belgrade, " explained Montague.

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Stimac and Swavely retired rich from Compaq in the 1990s.

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Both Stimac and Mihajlovic called for calm ahead of the contest and will be expected to set a dignified tone on Friday, but the two coaches did not always see eye-to-eye during their playing careers.

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Stimac, 50, knows what he's talking about.

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