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20 employees - this is fairly small, but not too simple depending on your daily usage. What are your users doing with the computers? Are you running and special software? Are there developers?
I agree with above as you should do better homework at identifying what the users do & need.
For example: whether your users should use laptop or desk computers - it mostly depends on costs and mobility needs, are your users working while traveling or are they only at the office?
Whether your server should be inhouse or external depends on costs vs. security needs as well as do flexibility and required access to the actual hardware.
Hardware also depends on cost vs. do you need something dedicated to graphic processing? heavy financial or statistical work?..


As for Media solution:
"We also need an internal media server (we have thousands of big image and video files, and the archive grows bigger every year)" -
For that there is a great open source solution called Kaltura - http://www.kaltura.org .
Kaltura will allow you to syndicate, manage, transcode, integrate with other solutions, etc. at no costs and easily.
Version 3 also runs on the Amazon EC2 in case you decide to go cloud based, or you can just download the software and install on your Linux box inhouse.

Adobe based their player on Kaltura's library: http://www.html5video.org/ (also see http://www.kaltura.org/project/HTML5_Video_Media_JavaScript_Library)

Something like Kaltura seems the best choice for now, it falls back on flash or Java playback in shitty browsers.

Instead of another exe/dll/.o to load things you use your existing browser. Assuming your browser understands all of HTML 5. (Hint- look up Canvas and Microsoft) And that it has the proper codecs to understand video. I use Firefox- do I need to give up on Youtube?

It lets search engines search thru the metadata and help categorize your website (if you like that sort of thing). And this is different from Flash how?

It allows for changing the behavior by end users instead of being controlled by the producer (which may or may not be a good thing depending on your world view). This comment is nonsensical. Changing what behavior? If you mean that you can see all the HTML5 source, that might be useful for some but there are an awful lot of folks out there doing commercial work that won't be happy about that.

I am excited about the web again (it has been awhile). I cant wait to see what new things people will cook up. This tech demo is just the sort of thing that makes the web cool. The web's always been cool. Check out some Flash sites- they've been doing the same stuff you're so excited about for the past five years. (Hint- Flash is used for more than video, games and ads) When something like Kaltura ports itself to HTML 5 then I'll start to be impressed

But can we cool the HTML 5 hype engine, seriously? This is a very minimal demo, just like every other "Look at the amazing power of HTML 5!" site I see. There are Flash-based music sites out there with dynamic scrolling, multi-track MIDI playback and lots of other features, and nobody calls them incredible. I look at the moving dot demo and then go back to Prezi, or listen to all the stuff about video in HTML 5 and then go work in Kaltura for a while

HTML 5 has a lot of potential. But it's hardly some amazing thing that brings new capabilities to the web. All of this is possible now. You may not like how it's done, but all HTML 5 is going to do is change the underlying tech, not give us lightning.