Marc:

Agreed, my impression is Crossflo is indeed more a SW firm. Though different than a manufacturing firm, you still have to deal with banging code and SW integration issues. Then you have interoperability issues, too. Look at the history of Oracle and their early SW integration issues with their customers. I've been there on the front lines, configuring my firms accounting system architecture with Oracle for instance. Not pretty!!!!..

So, IMO where as manufacturing firms have their more dominant issues, so do SW firms. Also, just thinking, though a SW firm may have come up with a great software idea, integrating that software into someone else's software will vary with each new customer. My experience has been that SW integration is harder than HW integration.

Hang in there, buddy...Only 2 more months to suffer thru the Padres...But look on the bright side, Da Bolts start up again in another month...:)))

Virt