ENN is reporting that the Irish public sector is to spend big money this year on IT. We all know about the PPARS types scandals. This years spend is going to be focused on consolidation. The growing opinion in the Irish market is that the past spend on "iron" has often been unwarranted. Last year saw increased interest and marketing in virtualistion technologies for server consolidation. I also think that the irish market is starting to understand that Microsoft solutions are scalable and don’t require the distributed "computer room in every office" approach of the past. In my only brief encounter with public sector (a very progressive department) last year it was clear that there was keen interest in virtualisation.