We had so much success with VMWare for our infrastructure applications we are now moving all of our Oracle DB's, ERP and other mission critical applications to IBM Power. We sent two sysadmins to IBMs Solaris to AIX class and their PowerVM class and they came back with a plan to do what we have wanted to do with Sun for years.

Hopefully we will be able to avoid building a new datacenter next year with this project.

Funny how a technology can transform and organization from a cost center reporting to the CFO to a key strategic part of the business reporting directly to the CEO.

Merry Christmas! The only cuts we are looking to make are electric, software licenses and cost avoidance.

"While only 133 people responded this time around, only a slightly larger percentage of users say they have been asked to make cuts to their IT budget."

Erm, the 133 (out of 300) that haven't lost their jobs in between the first and second studies?

Roger.

Maybe you should have sent them to a Solaris training instead... Now you have to pay the overpriced IBM tax, when you could have used all the free features in Solaris that your sysadmins didn't know about.