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Joseph Tucci, President and CEO, EMC: Page 4 of 18

Tucci: No... Nobody runs at maximum-terabyte capacity anyway, because performance is so bad. There's a knee in the curve. Look at Hitachi's knee in the curve versus ours; we are a lot faster. Look at the benchmarks. There are only so many drives before you kill performance. And if that's what you want, you would use Centera for massive archiving, at a fraction of the cost (see EMC Has Eyes for Huge Archives).

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Byte and Switch: Will the DMX product line make up the market share you lost to Hitachi?

Tucci: This platform hits the price/performance the market wants... Certainly in 2003 we will take back share.

Byte and Switch: So was it just performance that caused Symmetrix to lose share?