. >> host: jill atour row of the washington business bureau joins us here as well. >> host: yes. thank you for sitting down and chatting with us. nice to see you. >> guest: thank you, jill. >> host: i'm going to start off with some company news that we heard about. i'm just curious what this means for the company's technology portfolios. does it change much in terms of the technology itself, or is this more just the uniting of two different companies to better serve the customer? >> guest: well, jill, i would tell you this is a great marriage between the two companies. i can't tell you how excited i am to kind of go to the next level with intel. we've been working with intel for more than 18 months prior to the announcement that we did in august to announce the merger, and we really had an opportunity to build a road map, build a strategy together as we announced the merger. and this is really, you know, pretty much the same thing mcafee's been doing for many, many years, really now an opportunity to go faster at that strategy. and intel, as you know, a company who really prides i