Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer portion of today's call. (Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from Bill Shope of Credit Suisse.
Bill Shope - Credit Suisse
Okay, great, thanks. Last week, IBM made the argument that virtualization and increasing focus on utilization rates was pushing demand towards higher end server systems. Yet, we are seeing the opposite trend in your results. Can you help us understand why things may be different on your end and how you view the current server industry trends?
Jonathan Schwartz
You bet. I think more than anything else, customers are looking for value and when they see innovation in the marketplace that gives them that value, they will gravitate toward it quickly. So we clearly view our industry as one that's driven by the volume effect or kind of the volume on entry level systems eventually allows people to create technical alternatives to more traditional proprietary high-end systems. And I think we are progressing very nicely with that strategy. So the growth we saw on our low-end platforms, the growth we saw on our x86 systems, reflected by the growth we see for example in our MySQL and Infrastructure businesses, these are all growth trajectories that are spawning from volume opportunities.
And again, when we think of virtualization, we don't think of it simply as a software technology; we view it overall as an opportunity to build systems that deliver fundamentally what people traditionally only got on high-end systems, which is consolidation. Our CMT platforms, the most recent of which are actually 256-way computers are fabulous consolidation platforms, but at a fraction of the price of more traditional proprietary high end.
Ron Pasek
Next question please.
Operator
Our next question comes from Richard Gardner of Citigroup.
Richard Gardner - Smith Barney Citigroup
Thanks very much. Jonathan, first of all, I was hoping that you could give us an update on Solaris attach rates on your x86 server line.
Jonathan Schwartz
You bet. That continues to be kind of difficult to lens because obviously the customers tend to buy licenses to the platform and then buy systems to run the platform on. But simultaneously, if you look at our Open Storage line up, there is a 100% attach rate to Solaris on those platforms. So we continue to see growing interest. We've had a fair number of both high performance computing wins as well as fairly large scale both MySQL as well as Oracle buildouts being done with Solaris on x86. And we have some fairly high profile financial services customers, big web service companies and a fair number of customer references that are just giving us more and more opportunity. I think as customers leave proprietary UNIX behind, they are moving toward open source operating systems, and Solaris and Linux are obviously the two that they have to pick from. And that represents a big opportunity going forward, and not just on x86, but obviously on our CMT systems as well.
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