As noted, a lot of $big_company use Dell and HP servers, for many good reasons. I have worked with both and had no real complaints, except for a headache or two with the Dell PERC raid controllers that seemed to be isolated incidents. I've also maintained some instances of servers provided by smaller vendors like Penguin Computing that seemed to work fairly well.
Also as noted, for the most part, do not expect the wonderful full console capability of a sun machine. However, I have worked with some IBM blade servers that had built-in KVM over IP, both on the console level and via browser (blade-side java applet) which provides full screen graphics capability even at the BIOS level.
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