Margaret, very good post and question. The intention is indeed in this direction going to server-based Linux/Unix. Often this is a vision/ believe coming from IT people. The problem is the do not understand analytics environments and are locked in a box of the old classic cobol approach. Using new buzzword doesn't help for a change. - The real problems arise when they are becoming aware of a shared usage shared dwh and programming (analyses) modeling by non-IT people. For the shared usage a well understood design according to business policies (iso27k) should be there. This commonly fails, there are no good examples at the SAS-site for that. - The reaction will be isolating eveyr used to his own server/machine getting a lot of those without really support by the IT departments. - It doesn't help that the installation process of SAS is that complicated (SDW) and unique. It is not one that is commonly used in Unix/Linus like RedHats rpm. To rebuild this SDW is a time consuming often done activity. release management is a difficult process to understand. - It would great trying to remove those hurdles