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10.0.50 is going to be a huge change for a lot of customers because it's changing the way that you're pointing at your servers.

It's changing the way that code is potentially called out.

This can affect not just the code base of their D365 implementation, but also the integrations to some of their ISVs.

And so we want to make sure that we're getting ahead of that for our customers by checking and doing an assessment and then giving them a report that will show them exactly where they could potentially have pitfalls.

Yeah.

So I don't want to be glib about the transition to AI-based software development.

But look, even among our customers, both end customers and vendor customers like ISVs, who have very well-established products, As they are building that next generation of that same product, they are all using AI-based tools.

And the question becomes, how do they adopt those in a way that doesn't break their current software? And how do they, from a process standpoint, change their software development approaches? We spend an enormous amount of time with our customers on this, and we have a whole framework called AI-DLC, what is the AI development lifecycle.

that we have trained many of our customers around and we are iterating on all the time.

Okay, so we're S.I., So that means like a solutions integrator or a systems integrator for those folks that don't know.

So we kind of sit in the middle of MSPs and ISVs.

ISVs create full code solutions that they provide and sell.

And then there's also the licensed folks, but they're on the other side of MSPs.

So we're kind of like in that sweet spot between MSPs and ISVs because we also sometimes develop full solutions.

But those MSP partners wanted to expand on their practices.

So in order to do so without having to actually take on extra capabilities, they would take on a partner that did complementary services to them.

In this certified for SUSE AI Factory, we are announcing a host of new partnerships with companies like ClearML, Traffic Labs, TensorMesh, that provide a number of their pre-existing solutions as a part of SUSE AI factory.

Now, to deploy, say, for example, any one of these ISVs becomes a simple ClickOps type of an experience.

As Rancher has always been known for, SUSE AI Factory is known for, we are providing that ease of use and productionizing of AI use cases.

We are doing the same with a number of ISVs, providing a complete end-to-end solution so that an enterprise can get up there, system up and running very quickly.

So those are the three major innovations that we are bringing to the market this particular week.

Yeah, so obviously the quantum side of things, we've been talking about quantum computing for a while now.

Yeah, and the last announcement you made around opening, I would say opening up the ecosystem, but one of the challenges that we're seeing with AI platforms in general is getting up to day one, right? So, and what happens after day one? So we set up a platform and then you want to get the most out of it and drive a positive ROI, right? So, and this is, capability of the SUSE iFactory with NVIDIA helps to drive that adoption, right? So quickly spin up use cases, quickly add partner solutions to it, and add a variety of use cases to the platform from the get-go.

You nailed it very well, Johan.

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Most of them today have multiple code writing solutions.

Well, what is being discovered in mass right now by customers, by ISVs, by partners is, oh my gosh, automating how code is created is only part of the problem.

Because if you think about how an idea comes to deliver value, well, you need an idea and then you have to plan, you have to write a PRD.

How are we going to, How are we going to turn that idea into technology? And then that idea has to be coded, right? And code has to be created.

Now we can extend it so we can define our own types and we can put everything through that one eDocuments engine.

They've done the changes, now all the ISVs need to work on this.

CleverDynamics have been doing that for a while.

We've been waiting for them exactly, which is why I was asking Microsoft for the changes that we needed.

Upgrade scripts that people use for testing, they catch the base system.

Now we're customized, we're adding ISVs, we're tailoring these things in pretty well, and it shuts the business down.

Like if you can't process a sales order, it's pretty hard to make money.

And when it comes to our team, what breaks is now we took a, okay, I can put this and figure this out and pull the team together.