>>Wow, am I glad that I live in the database/data warehousing/BI world. :)
Fair enough- customers who come to you are pre-selected for SQL Server and your services so it's calmer. ;-) But you don't strike me as somebody who is afraid of a bit of upheaval and chaos. ;-) When it happens, development will be the same blast it was when developers could carve a prototype app in a day that already knocked the socks off a traditional offering after months of busy activity. I saw more than one medical insurer dump their big iron solution that already was at $200K of an expected $2M cost and replace with a PC solution quoted at $50K which was enough to buy a house at the time.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1