>>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.