Global Deployments Update
Global deployments remain a hot topic with SharePoint. I was just discussing the same with a partner 2 days ago and I found that our document on Global deployments hadn't been updated.
But I found this blog by Joel Oleson which seems to satisfy most of my concerns:
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2006/12/21/determining-the-global-deployment-approach.aspx
