We believe that there's a great deal of fantastic innovation that will occur above the embedded layer and below the system management layer. There's a lot of really interesting enterprise-class operating system work we believe will be appealing to OEM customers even though they may be the shipping open-source bits as a foundation layer.
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In three years there are likely to be three major distribution channels - OEM, aftermarket and cell phone operators.
We're working closely with Kearny OEM Office of Emergency Management to put a more codified operating plan in place.
When we said we would sign up multiple microcontroller partners, it raised an important issue, since we're a tiny company. We had the specific discussion of eliminating OEM sales in favor of partnering with chip suppliers, but the coprocessor market appeared to have a long enough life to justify our offering products like the EM260 independently.
The Marvell Yukon family of Ethernet controllers has become an industry standard and Yukon Ultra enables PC manufacturers to create platforms that deliver the outstanding performance and sophisticated power savings demanded in both the consumer and enterprise markets. By providing pin compatibility Marvell is enabling our OEM partners to leverage existing system designs, guaranteeing quick time to market and shorter design cycles.
By putting this structure together, we're able to do all of this. The administrative burden on our department has increased 100 percent ever since 911. This gives us management coverage seven days a week and gives me assistance in other fields, like traffic and signaling and the OEM.
Our objective is to grow our OEM business by penetrating the OEM areas we're in more deeply rather than look for new business, though we'll do that too. For the first time we'll have a budget and resources directly focused on this. The response from customers has been very enthusiastic.
The cost doesn't just disappear. It shifts to the supplier. It's somewhat efficient and it certainly makes Dell look efficient. But the supplier could pass along the cost to the OEM.
This agreement is part of our strategy to grow Nissan's global LCV business through direct and OEM sales.
As a measure of our success toward achieving our goal of becoming the industry standard, we've set objectives over the coming two years to grow to 1 million subscribers from 440,000 at the end of fiscal 2005, ... A key enabling strategy for these objectives is to establish BIOS relationships with the top tier computer OEMs. We believe that our embedded BIOS relationship with IBM was a key factor in driving Q4-2005 sales contract growth, and is an indication of the future potential of this strategy. We are continuing to advance this strategy, and subsequent to year end we announced Gateway as the second OEM to begin embedding Absolute's software into their BIOS.
OEM revenue was light as demand for business PCs remained slow in the quarter, and we remain guarded about near-term growth, ... However, PC demand appeared to pick up late in the quarter, and with the launch of Windows 2000, we are excited about the opportunity to help customers migrate to this new generation of platform products.
Based on new OEM business, we are raising our earnings guidance for fiscal years 2007 and 2008, with expectations that results will almost double our previous...earnings guidance for these periods. We are also pursuing a number of other OEM opportunities.
As we welcome the new Sterling 360 to the product family, we also strengthen our commitment to the growth of the brand. Sterling is now the only truck OEM to offer customers a full line of Class 3-8 vehicles, which allows us to reach a wider customer base and provides us with a platform for future product introductions.