Joseph M. Tucci
Analyst · FBN Securities. Your line is open.
I’ll take the Pivotal and I’ll give it to David on the China, Europe and Federal. First of all, I want to say that Pivotal is performing so close to their plan. It’s unbelievable. If you’re internally, it almost look like we – the plan and the actual, it’s almost the same. So we’re very pleased with the way Pivotal is progressing. This is a positioning here for Pivotal. This is a big investment year for Pivotal. The big thing from the product point of view is to get this Pivotal One platform out and we’re focused on that, a big, big milestone for Pivotal as we’re watching. And I can tell you, I’m incredibly pleased with this one, is are we getting the light house wins and the big accounts across the set of industries which we think are important and I could tell you we are in space. PS margins are very low, dragging it down. The reason there is we’re building up like crazy, right. So PS margins – you can always put a technologist in, but then it takes you a while to get revenue out off the other end. But we’re over staffing and building the talent because that’s how we’re going to win. And again, while the future will be a cloud based platform, we still sell a lot of appliances today. We’re exceeding the markets whereas appliances are low. So really, the Pivotal growth last quarter was exceedingly good – this slowdown. I think you’re going to look at it the whole year and we told you we expect that to be a little bit over $300 million for the year, that’s I believe that’s where it’s going to come in. But the more important things, are we going to get out Pivotal I, are we going to get those lighthouse win, are we going to build the team to win and the answer is yes, yes and yes. And I think as David mentioned, IBM joining CloudFoundry. I think is really, really positive for the industry and that will expand the CloudFoundry ecosystem contributing to -- contribute technology and plan to use the CloudFoundry in their own application development there. So, Pivotal is, I couldn’t be more pleased with Pivotal, I really couldn’t. So it’s the way we set the plan, not from maximum revenue growth there but to get those things I just talked about [Dan]. Do you want to talk about China and Europe and federal, David?