Napolitano: Yeah, I voted with my feet. My team is very excited. We're working hard. The interesting thing is that being part of Sun now, our strategy for what was Pirus now the data services platform strategy is so core to the storage business. So it's kind of exciting. A lot of times when you're acquired, you're an outsider. The strategy that they'd been working on now I see why they acquired us we fit so well where they want to go. We allow them to manifest the strategy much more quickly in real products.
As far as Pirus the company... I don't know. I mean, we led the pack. We were the first guys out there preaching intelligence in the infrastructure and [being] protocol- and wire-agnostic. I think we overestimated ourselves, how fast iSCSI would be adopted. So we probably spent more time on that than we should have. Because the market just wasn't there for that. That's one area... Other than pure execution things and people stuff, the reason why startups fail is they overshoot the market by too much. They overshoot by so much that there's no market there when they need to get to market.
Byte and Switch: Is there another startup out there in your future?
Napolitano: If you ask my wife, it will be very, very clear. This is my third one. Adobe, Adaptec, and now Sun. You start doing the math of the probabilities, and it starts getting very, very small of hitting another one.
Byte and Switch: Close to zero?
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