Byte and Switch: OK...
Napolitano: That's the standalone product, we call it the Data Services Platform, sitting in front of heterogeneous storage, from a number of different vendors. When we come to market, we'll actually have a proved vendor list that we've tested with already. And we'll continue to grow that list over time.
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Byte and Switch: Why is it in Sun's interest to sell something that lets customers use whatever storage they want?
Napolitano: It's in Sun's interest to sell this because that's the end-user problem, right? The end user does have a heterogeneous storage problem. Sun is really about I'm learning all this, and I've seen it now first-hand we want to have end-to-end solutions: We want to sell you a server, we want to sell a data services platform, we want to sell you a storage array. But that doesn't mean we won't sell you pieces of that. It's kind of embedded in the culture. So, develop technologies around standards in this case, Fibre Channel and allow people to pick and choose which parts of the solution they want from Sun.
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