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Feinberg: I would think those are significant numbers. I think you're being modest, but is that a trend that has increased or decreased over the last few months or years? McGoff: Actually, the trendline is almost linear. It's not exponential, but it is upward in a slow, steady rate. Feinberg: Which is what you'd want, really. McGoff: Yes, but we would like a faster one. We've been doing this for quite a few years. We have new versions of the Viewer, and we have new versions of the ODB++ Inside applica- tion. When we announced those, we got some spikes, but if you did the run rate on it, it's been a nice steady increase for about 10 years. I just mentioned the ODB++ Inside appli- cation. is is the application that we write for the Cadence Allegro users. It's something that Valor committed to do for Cadence back in 1995, and we've been doing it ever since. It allows the Allegro users to convert their designs into ODB++ with correct format sup- port and current version support for Allegro. On that one, we get more than 200 downloads per month, so again, not a bad number. We have 200 Cadence customers downloading ODB++ every month. I think it's safe to say that ODB++ is the most widely used intelligent data exchange format in the industry. Now, we're doing all this and have always done all this free of charge for the indus- try's benefit. e ODB++ specification can be downloaded for free, the ODB++ Viewer is free, the ODB++ Inside application is free, the technical support for soware developers that Max spoke about is free, and the technical support even for all these 73,000 users of the