The right server for the right job.

Disk-based backup is still in the early stages of adoption in enterprises, and, even then, it is mostly limited to high-end enterprises.

Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.

This is for any workload which needs high-power computing. We are seeing a transition from government and academic use to a broader market - to bring it into the mainstream. The sweet spot is not for really big machines but in the range of 4 to 64 way machines.

We see this a pretty good example of how .NET can provide value and a worthwhile service that customers will be willing to pay for.

[Open source] applications are not integrated into companies' Linux environments. They are built on one off environments so there's no consistency... there are real support issues.

It's actually very crucial for the financial model to be based on end-users paying for the value they receive. It's a reboot of the Internet business model.

We see this as an important step in our efforts to work cooperatively with the [mobile-phone] industry.