I speak to a lot of NT/IT staff, and they always say they wait for either SP2 or SP3 before they move to a new product or version.

Well SP3 for 2005 has been released.  However, SQL Server 2000, the earlier version was sidelined in April of last year.  This doesn’t make sense to me at all.  And a lot of companies are still using SQL 2000.  Although the 2000/2005 split is about 95% for our clients, the more established 2000 shops don’t need any support so this isn’t very indicative at all.  But now 2008 is almost 8 months old, it may be tempting for these shops to jump to straight to 2008.  2008 is a much more mature, solid product than 2005.  2005 was extremely buggy when it first arrived, but the feature set had changed dramatically.