An interesting survey into attitudes towards green computing from CDW's ITMonitor shows that while the majority of US "IT decision makers" think green issues are important, there are many reasons why adoption will be slow, with people concerned about the cost, the complexity of greener systems and the possible disruption of their existing systems.

Rather worryingly, two-fifths of small businesses - those with fewer than 100 employees - have no plans to implement green IT measures in the next couple of years, although this may be less significant than it seems as if these companies follow the trend to 'cloud computing' and offloading their data and processing to remote servers they will indirectly be using tne more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly systems that are being installed by the big providers.

The survey data (available here as a PDF) comes from responses from  1,041 IT decision makers conducted between May 27 and June 3, 2008. There's a good summary of the report from Joel Hruska over on Ars Technica, which also looks at what Dell and HP are doing in the area.