At the company i work for, we do have around 30(?!) different labels and we decided that all websites of those labels, should be hosted on one platform: SharePoint 2010. This consolidation to one platform should really decrease costs, because we now have one generic way of developing, one platform to take care of and we can reuse a lot of components.  One of the service applications that we wanted to reuse amongst all applications, is the Fast Query Service Application, as we have a Fast instance running.  Our labels are really enthousiast about the Fast Search for SharePoint capabilities due to fact that a lot of interesting features, like visual best bets, can be configured from within the UI. Other things, like new ranking models can easily be configured via powershell. There is just one index, with all public information in it: personal details or things like that, will not be indexed! By configuring scopes in a correct way, we can prevent information from label 1 to appear in the search results on label 2. If, for some reason, those results appeared by accident (wrongly configured scope), that wouldn’t be too much of a problem, as that can be fixed real soon.

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