Joining a project is the best way of mucking things up. Apart from that negative viewpoint: Intel are providing the expensive component (the CPU) so it's in th

Joining a project is the best way of mucking things up. Apart from that negative viewpoint: Intel are providing the expensive component (the CPU) so it's in their interest for the complement (the chipset/motherboard/chassis) to be a comodity. Juniper/Cisco are supplying the network infrastructure, so they want the attached servers to be as cheap as possible.