No real commentary on it, but I thought I would point you to an interview posted at IT Business Edge with Jeff Jernigan of Instat, a communications market research firm that has been tracking the trend of managed services in the market. Managed services is one of those buzzwords that it seems like everyone must be embracing, but it's interesting to get some numbers attached to the trend: Jernigan says overall growth in the field is around 8%, which isn't shabby, but isn't quite the explosion one might assume from the way other analysts talk it up (including myself, I suppose).