I'm quite excited about the prospect of CLR integration.  Although I work as a DBA and would like my career to progress down that route, I am currently studing for an MCSD.  This will hopefully put me in a good position when SQL Server 2005 is on the market. 

The only problem as I see it is that I work for a government agency in England, and these new technologies take time to creep through (I'm still battling trying to get some SQL 6.5 Servers upgraded to SQL2K !!!!).  So who knows, maybe in 2010 I can get my teeth into it