Scratch IBM

Make that HP

HP Titanium PC

Use everything we've got from Sparc on Titanium.

We won't have trouble getting it up to speed.

HP
SGI International
Intel
Nvidia
Seagate
Novell
Apple
BSD Foundation
Gentoo Foundation
Oracle
Juniper Networks
Force 10 Networks
...
...

Scratch Xerox. HP has all the printing we need.
Scratch Apple. We'll be using Novell SUSE Linux.

All the same just replace IBM with HP.

Global Crossing Equinix.

HP Unix Experience
SGI Irix Experience
Sun Solaris Experiece [Oracle]
BSD Experience

All going into Novell Linux.

That's what we need.

And as far as hardware is concerned...

We've got Oracle, HP, and SGI experience.

We'll get Itanium up to speed.