• Good comments, and I wonder how well Microsoft would enforce upgrade requirements. It will be interesting to see how this plays out and I would love to know if Energizer is actually maintaining any SQL 2000 instances or being pushed to 2005/2008.

    Staying conservative is good, but if you use something like Dynamics/Siebol/etc., you are somewhat at the mercy of those companies supporting new versions/SPs as well as paying for them if needed.

    I'm not sure this is a great move for SQL, or perhaps even Exchange. And if it's just file servers does that make sense? Or maybe it makes sense just to let someone else manage the data center, everything from the Transport layer down, and still keep staff to handle the application level stuff?

    I wonder how many companies will think about this.