In the end, people are more comfortable with a single-vendor solution. But the fact is that the world is not homogenous. People have Hitachi Ltd. [NYSE: HIT; Paris: PHA] arrays or LSI Logic Storage Systems Inc. arrays out there already. We think it's important for us to support those. Frankly, we're going to support some of those basic primitives even in the integrated product, because we think that's important for that as well. You'll be able to support other people's arrays behind our integrated product.
Byte and Switch: Overall, Sun is more of a server company than a storage company, right?
Napolitano: Well, server companies have always been storage companies. I started my career at Digital, which was a server company. But the fact of the matter was, a large percentage of the revenue came from storage, as it does at Sun. They tend not to talk about it because they lead with the server proposition, because they want to sell the end-to-end solution. Mark Canepa, my boss, runs storage. He's a Sun employee; he's not the storage EVP first and foremost. So the end-to-end solution is the biggest proposition in the whole company. You don't hear us talk about storage in the way you would an independent storage company. We just won't do that. We're not going to do that. We're not going to unbundle our numbers. But the fact of the matter is, it's a huge market for storage products. Sun is a very large storage supplier.
Byte and Switch: But in terms of company-wide strategy, things tend to flow from the server side, right? Isn't that a challenge?
Napolitano: No, not really. I think... Canepa was a server guy; he's very strong in the organization and is the champion for storage products. It's clear we can grow the storage business at Sun substantially. So we're investing in it. The action around Pirus and other things that are going on, I think, should be testament to the fact that we are serious about the storage business. And, frankly, I voted with my feet. I didn't have to do the deal. I believe we can really grow the storage business here.
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