How can you be driving to do something now and yet claim you've been doing it for a long time?

Robert Brewin, CTO of software at Sun, added a warning, saying you can't change company culture overnight. 'You need to live the life,' he said.

Sounds good, but can older high-tech companies adopt the CE lifestyle?

InfoWorld's editor in chief, Steve Fox, asked Pait for a date when the rotating hard disk would disappear in favor of solid-state memory. Despite the fact that Seagate wants to live the CE life, Pait's response was telling:

'Never,' Pait said, adding that to think solid-state storage would ever replace the hard-disk drive was like believing 'we will have starships someday, too.'