Commercial revenue gained 5.2% as new mobile partnerships and increased payments from existing partnerships helped to offset a decline in retail, merchandising, apparel and productlicensing.
"The public perception has been that solid-state will take over the world and run disk makers out of business, but you can't bring that product to market without licensing disk drive technology, " said WilliamWatkinsWilliam Watkins, Seagate's chief executive, in an interview with Forbes.