Your standardization effort through the Aperi vendor deal you announced at the last SNW doesn't seem to be going anywhere. You have the same number of vendor partners.

Sanders: We really haven't opened it up until the bylaws are formed, because the current body has to vote on those bylaws.

Isn't your effort toward standards going to conflict with SNIA's SMI-S initiative?

Sanders: Absolutely not. To me it's very straight-forward. We have standards. We have no reference code or architecture around those standards. It's every man for himself. It's about having some code you don't have to rewrite and rewrite. Every time we write a driver for HP, I bet they already have one. But we write it any ways.

Tape is an enormous part of IBM's business, but it seems to be shifting toward being relegated to archival only. How do you address the drop in the amount of tape being used?