This is Marc Farley from EqualLogic. I know a number of people are predicting that the EMC/Dell relationship will fall apart once Dell starts selling EqualLogic products, but I don't think that perspective takes into account the breadth of their relationship, which includes software and services as well as storage systems. EqualLogic is not going to start developing FC storage and Dell has many customers that want FC storage. I know that because we run into it all the time in our sales efforts at EqualLogic. Don't get me wrong, we're never all that happy to lose a deal to EMC, but I can tell you there are lots of customers who want to buy EMC FC products from Dell. Furthermore, there are many customers who already have both EMC and EqualLogic products running in their data centers and want to keep it that way. Its bound to be a bit strange for some time, but my guess is that Dell and EMC will continue to be more valuable to each other as accommodating business partners than they are as bitter rivals. An EMC/Dell divorce would probably only be satisfying to their mutual competitors.
the CX range that DELL rebadge will still sell well as they are agressively priced and even undercut EMC's own list proce for the same model.