Bob Hult
Chief Financial Officer
All right. I’ll give it a shotfor you here. It’s a little extemporaneous. But, I think if we look at our --what we also call our core business. Where defense lies and where the commercialbusiness such as Jay mentioned that we historically dealt with KLA-Tencor, andeven some of the new things we’re doing in the communications space. Thatbusiness will grow. Our view is that it will grow, albeit at a rate lower thanwhat Visage Imaging has the potential to do, and that ties directly to the, forinstance, the Frost & Sullivan reflect that Jay was referencing. The market opportunity for VisageImaging in 3D medical imaging, specifically the visualization in the PAC space,it’s fairly -- it’s large. So, one thing we’ve got to put down here is highgrowth rate on Visage Imaging, respectable growth rate on our core business.And gross margin for our core business, it has got defense, we've always donewell there. We deliver a very, I’m just going to call that a very capable andpowerful platform in some very specific defense applications, and we had a lotof value. You can expect the gross margin is very high. On the commercial side of ACS,it’s a little bit different. We are always being challenged there by Moore’slaw, if you will. And if we stay ahead of it, we win the business, butcharacteristically there is margin pressure there. Though, even ACS is ablended margin. That margin is tending to look like the corporate average rightnow. Back to Visage Imaging, theemerging 3D medical imaging business. That business overtime will be much moresoftware than hardware, that’s our belief anyways. Where somebody wants anaccelerated platform, we'll provide it, which you know; the accelerated platformthat we are offering right now is GPU-based in the primary as an example. I'mnot going to call it a commodity, but you know what that does to the grossmargins on the hardware side. So, that's got pushes and pullsalso. Long-term, will it look like a software business, total software business80% to 90%? We don’t think so. But we think it will be well in excess of 70% ona longer term payments business model. Bottom line operating profit, serioushigh teens for both businesses are quite possible. We might even be able to doa little bit better on the medical imaging business but again, that's veryperspective looking down the road a few years. And frankly, we don’t know on thatone, but that’s our view.