I'm not entirely sure who was on the short list. I think one of the critical requirements was that they be certified to support Oracle Databases, so that reduced the list a bit. And, obviously, Oracle being the makers of their own database system, was the prime candidate for that, in terms of the solution.

We were looking at the Exadata system, but the customer decided that they really needed to be able to put their applications with their database. Whenever you're dealing with a solution that isn't totally database-centric, then you need to look at something that can handle database as well as applications. The SuperCluster is the logical option because it does both.