Rich Marcello Quotations

We're getting close to being done. We've identified that when we get around 9,000, we've done all the homework.

HP welcomed the new design because fundamentally, the cores were fatter. It was a real win in terms of being competitive with our primary competitor, which is (IBM's) Power.

We'll probably ship systems in late August or September.

We'll offer stuff that will make it attractive for them to go forward.

We probably have another 18 months or so until we get it done.

We think we can ride this wave and grow our Integrity business substantially. Moving forward, we think a lot of our Integrity revenue growth will come from these countries.

And we think that we will now begin to start selling more Superdome-class boxes running OpenVMS now, too. But don't get me wrong. This is not a huge growth business for us, but the people who are on OpenVMS pretty much want to be there forever.

Is it going to be great out of the chute? Probably not. But it'll be a solid implementation and a lot of customers will take advantage of it.

Our customers at HP-Oracle shops have been saying, 'We want the complete portfolio.' We had bits and pieces, but we didn't have the entire thing.

A lot are in need of more bandwidth and less latency. There's no reason why you should wait.