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We're not only going into our core markets of education, graphics and video, which has seen a huge increase in the need for storage.
Do I buy something new that is proprietary, locked in and expensive? Or do I buy something new that is open, faster and cheaper? That is where we see an opportunity.
Nobody has the penetration we're seeing in these key vertical markets that are so important to Apple, but just as significant is the non-Mac space.
The plan is to transition to the Intel processor by the end of this calendar year from today's IBM G5 2.3 GHz processor PowerPC processor. It's the best way to improve performance.
We were able to deliver this upgrade without changing the price. So essentially for our customers, it's basically $1.86 per gigabyte for this high level of storage.
Forty percent of our business is in heterogeneous environments.
We also have an advantage in the intuitiveness of all of our software. Everything from Mac OS X Server Admin and Server Monitor all the way to ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) make the tasks that people have to do a lot easier.
This is a big day on the RAID side.
