Nice topic, Steve, and I have to say I'm not at all surprised at the numbers people are reporting.

An interesting related question - for those that are "development dba's" or "database developers" (whatever you want to call it - a person that focuses on db design and software development primarily in the db itself, maybe with some DAL and ETL work thrown in), what ratios have you seen? For me, it's usually 1 database specialist per about 10-20 people (although I have been the db specialist on a small team of 5 before).