I hope it wasn't a Simple-Talk forum! Simple-Talk ran a number of PowerShell articles and we were surprised at the lack of keenness for the scripting shell. After quite a bit of debate, we came to the conclusion that it was just too arcane. Although it would be quixotic to believe we can change the general flight to Powershell, we can see IronPython and IronRuby being far easier to use for administrative scripting for a lot of folks. We're hedging our bets!

Here again, the 'softies' are a bit out-of-touch with the work in ordinary IT departments. When the subject of Powershell came up in the recent DB Teched sessions, the DBAs in the audience showed little enthusiasm, as Tony noted in his editorial when they were confronted with complex XQuery etc.. (I seem to have been as interested in the audience reaction to what was said from the rostrum, as in the talks themselves, but these were recorded anyway for posterity.)