The reason for the swap is that I'm the only person in the shop who has a clue about HP hardware, and all of our other servers are Dells. With these functions moved over to Linux on Dell hardware, even if I get hit by a truck, my coworkers will have a fighting chance of figuring out what they do.
So, it's been a distinct pleasure to ignore the phone (which isn't ringing much anyway, due to the Christmas break), refuse all meeting requests, and just get some serious geeking in!