Jeff Steiner

So I averaged something on the order of 25,000 emails per year.

Wow.

Seriously.

I'm not sure how.

I want to see metrics on that.

I type really fast.

I think with all things in the IT industry right now, it's in very much a state of flux.

And I could give you a thousand different large and small examples.

I mean, the first thing that comes to mind is efficiency.

So everybody knows efficiency is a big hot topic in the storage industry right now.

Who's got better efficiency than somebody else?

While that's been happening and people are getting more obsessed about it, database customers are becoming a lot more obsessed with security.

And an awful lot of them are just implementing security, sorry, encryption across the board, 100%.

And encryption basically ruins database.

Yeah.

So what do you do?

You've got these two things moving against each other right now where everyone wants the efficiency, and they're also making changes that block security.

any chance of actually enjoying the benefits of that efficiency.

What can you do there?

I'm sure Oracle is dealing with a lot of the same issues as we are, where we lack visibility into where the market is going that we used to have.