Ricardo,

I am sure you are right regarding the new people Edig will need in the future. But what might be equally important is someone who knows what they have and where they are supposed to go. To put it differently, we need also someone who knows how to manage technology. Our inventions and patents point, as doni and others have suggested, in a myriad of directions. Ranbus has become a technological laboratory. Edig should do the same. Until now it didn't have the resources, But now it almost have them and it bounds to increse them in the near future. It is good that they dropped some products. I would also like to see them venturing forth in other directions as well. Pat, we all agree, is a very good man. But he needs technical in house support. None of us knows precisely the plans of the management but this is something they certainly can share with us all without jeopartizing the future of the company. In fact, this will show a great deal of maturity.