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Joseph Tucci, President and CEO, EMC: Page 17 of 18

Byte and Switch: Sun Microsystems Inc. [Nasdaq: SUNW] is tying everything up in one complete management package: storage, servers, software, services. HP and IBM are going in a similar direction. How does EMC respond to that?

Tucci: And that's what customers want, right?

Byte and Switch: Well, some customers do apparently want the whole integrated package from one vendor.

[Long pause. Byte and Switch editors do the crossword puzzle.]

Byte and Switch: Well? How do you respond to a customer when they ask you about that? What's the advantage of buying my storage separately from the rest of my data center equipment?