Martin: Well, no. Because of our success in Asia, we continue to invest in Asia, as well as keeping our focus on Europe. We've not disinvested, we've not downsized. We're continuing our current marketplace strength in Europe. We want to be positioned so that when the market comes back, we'll be able to take advantage.
Byte and Switch: You actually lived in China for a while. It sounds as if the market there is doing well. Is there a reason for that?
Martin: Well, absolutely. The whole economy in China has been doing well. And they've been on an economic growth of between 6 and 9 percent every year for the last five or six years, as they reindustrialize that country.
Byte and Switch: But is there any reason that storage in particular is strong in China?
Martin: Well, God love them. They're so entranced by technology that we're in every major bank in China, and they're already digitalizing a lot of their television, so our systems are in there helping archiving a lot of their broadcast systems. So banking, government... AIG is over there in insurance, so we've started to sell into the insurance market. But it's fundamentally the same type of markets that we have here: Markets that require immense amounts of storage, and that have to make sure that if there is a disaster of one type or another, they've got the ability to keep on executing.
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