What are the prospects for mergers and acquisitions?
I’m not saying what Asset’s plan is, but, in the design space, mergers and acquisitions happen all the time. They’re not as frequent in the test area, but, of course, they occur there, too. But the most important thing now with Asset is to get the company growing organically with these new initiatives with the processor-controlled test and embedded instrumentation, so that’s what we are going to focus on doing. Do you plan to form partnerships with complementary vendors? “Partnerships”—and I use that term loosely—typically fall into three categories. There can be a sales/distribution agreement, there can be just a marketing or message story, or there can be some in-depth joint development. The last type can be significant. Examples are the partnerships that NI had with Analog Devices [regarding NI’s LabView graphical-development module for Analog Devices’ Blackfin processors] and Luminary Micro [regarding a LabView graphical-development module for ARM targets on a Luminary Micro evalua
