We started working together with Intel; we put together an effort around Intel's 64-bit platform, and we created this set of hubs, the data hub for BIA, now expanded into other areas. We ended up with 100x price performance difference, which was 10 times better than what we expected than when we went into this experience. And that's even before we put in Woodcrest and next generations of Intel's chips, and I expect by the end of this year, we'll be at a 500x price performance difference from where we started. So this is tremendous work. You can't do that on your own. This is the result of combining the efforts of two world-class engineering organizations, SAP and Intel. And the end result is obviously tremendous for our customers. We'll see this innovation going into hundreds and thousands of customers over the next year, year and a half. And we think that by doing so we're not just changing the landscape for our customers. We may be changing the landscape for this whole industry
-- Shai Agassi, SAP VP in charge of development, talking about working with Intel on the BI Accelerator program at Intel's IDF in 2006
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