Brown to room... any of you connecting other GIS products to your Geodatabase?

Clint Brown asks a room of about 300 or 400... "are there any of you who connect your GIS to other systems (CAD, GeoMedia, Microstation etc...)"there's a quiet pause and about a dozen hands went up... WOW. Clint was amazed and I was equally surprised. Perhaps people are being shy, or there's a room full of committed ESRI users here... amazing. Not to knock any of the other vendors but it's quite amazing that more people don't have multi-vendor licenses kicking around... boy have times changed!