Jeff Baxter
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And now it's, okay, what's new?
What new conversations can we start to have about what new capabilities of ONTAP?
And then November is obviously right around the time of our user conferences, right?
So typically Insight in, it moves around a little bit, but October, so usually in Las Vegas for our Americas and APAC customers.
And then following usually a month later, for our MIA customers, the last couple of years has been in Berlin.
So depending exactly on when that ONTAP release drops,
It may be right after both Insights or maybe bracketed by Insights, but it definitely is right there so we can talk about the next major release of ONTAP.
So, you know, we're looking forward to right now.
I don't think it's much of a spoiler to say, you know, this November it'll most likely be an ONTAP 9.3 dropping.
And that's the whole goal of the cadence model is 9.2 this May, 9.3 November, and so on to 9.4 and 9.5.
And hopefully in a year or two, we'll figure out what we do when we hit 9.9 and have to come up with a solution.
Sure.
And I will refer people on our website for support policies all laid out.
So just in case I misspeak on any aspect of it, that's where the official support policy is.
But basically what we got to do was,
Candidly for ourselves and our customers and the ecosystem of partners, right?
Because we have to do QA on all our products and then our partners, our technology partners have to QA against those and so forth.
It starts to get very tricky if you go from a model where in a five-year span, so typically on our FAS or AFF controllers, you can buy five years of hardware support.
And in those five years, you would typically have, what, two or three or four major releases of ONTAP to all of a sudden having 10 major releases of ONTAP on it.
And that does become...