Cisco, BLEH.. hate the stuff myself. Most places that don't have a bunch of CCNAs around go with HP or netgear. I've played with a couple dell switches (re-braned something or other) they're stable enough, but I've heard about problems from some people.. maybe they just don't remember to save running config to stored config.

Also.. gige is cheap enough these days to just skip 10/100 ports.