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Through our research we have worked with many different professionals, and collaborated with companies such as Gartner and Microsoft. Even Microsoft considered outsourcing, mostly off-shore but struggled with this decision based on the complexity of the DBA role. The topic of benchmarking database services and best practices is one which will continued to be studies by students and companies alike. Much is left to be researched in the field of IT. Our group did the best possible job on this project based on the time limit of the Fall semester. We are all excited to have learned so much about a topic that was completely remote to each of us, and we have learned to continue to push our research further, even when the light at the end of the tunnel is very dim, and the hope of finding more information was not always promising. But if indeed, Georgia Pacific is one day successful in benchmarking it’s database services, we will walk a little more taller knowing that somehow we were involved on their road to success.