A lot are in need of more bandwidth and less latency. There's no reason why you should wait. |
And we think that we will now begin to start selling more Superdome-class boxes running OpenVMS now, too. But don't get me wrong. This is not a huge growth business for us, but the people who are on OpenVMS pretty much want to be there forever. |
HP welcomed the new design because fundamentally, the cores were fatter. It was a real win in terms of being competitive with our primary competitor, which is (IBM's) Power. |
Is it going to be great out of the chute? Probably not. But it'll be a solid implementation and a lot of customers will take advantage of it. |
Our customers at HP-Oracle shops have been saying, 'We want the complete portfolio.' We had bits and pieces, but we didn't have the entire thing. |
We are offering a lot of high-touch. |
We are partnering with Oracle to take on IBM and DB2. |
We probably have another 18 months or so until we get it done. |
We think we can ride this wave and grow our Integrity business substantially. Moving forward, we think a lot of our Integrity revenue growth will come from these countries. |
We'll offer stuff that will make it attractive for them to go forward. |
We'll probably ship systems in late August or September. |
We're getting close to being done. We've identified that when we get around 9,000, we've done all the homework. |