Hello?
"it's hard to believe that anything but a very small minority of shops would need to support floppy discs on Proliant servers"
The author obviously isn't familiar with installing windows - the damn thing still needs a floppy drive to load the poxy additional RAID controller drivers. In theory it ought to be possible to stuff them on an additional CD (which doesn't often work) or slipstream them onto a customised copy of the windows media (thereby violating whatever terms MS write on the discs themselves).
Welcome to the 21st century - the FDD is alive and well, thank you!