Jeff Baxter

By that point, by the way, 9.3 will have been out for at least six months, right, or longer.

So it's not like we're asking people to move to a release that exists already.

But that's kind of the difference between non-LTS and LTS is customers who are –

consuming these even releases.

I think of them as more innovation customers who, if they're willing to consume every six months, it implies to me that they'd be willing to move to a next version of ONTAP at least within a year, right?

It should never be a problem for them because they're consuming every six months anyways.

Yeah, it's fun to look at the autosport laws and see what some of our really old boxes are still sending in and how long they've been up for.

It is a testament to ONTAP.

You know, I know this sounds a little bit like spin, but what I tell people is if you need to, pretend like the even releases don't exist, right?

So 9.1, 9.3, and so on.

We've taken absolutely nothing away.

In fact, we're actually releasing still quicker every 12 months instead of every 18 months.

You get that full five years, right?

So the three years of full support and then the two years of extended support that you've always gotten.

In fact, you get it with more rigor because we've actually laid out exactly how long you're going to have support on that release and exactly when successive releases are going to come.

And so for our, I don't want to call them conservative customers, but for our, sorry, conservative enterprise customers, they're going to have that

rigor they're going to know exactly what's coming there to know exactly how long they have support for they're going to know exactly when the successive releases are coming so they can qualify those releases and still be under support right it's a lot more sort of enterprise conservative friendly and then if you put in the fact that as a bonus as a cherry on top we're going to have these even releases with a heck of a lot of cool innovation coming every six months and if you want to consume them great if you want to consume every six month release we've got that sort of innovation engine within your company

Go for it.

If you're a conservative enterprise company and there's one killer feature that you want to absorb just that once, you can make the investment decision.

It's not a non-major release.