Hello Eric and fellow listers,

I am not familiar with your company or products.

I am associated with the Flight Systems division of the Astronautics
company within Lockheed Martin.  We are the group who is involved in
interplanetary exploration (primarily Mars).  The spacecraft whose life
ended two weeks ago by crashing into Mars was one of ours.

The group which actually builds the instruments on our spacecraft would
use such as those your company provides.  The lab I manage is a two-part
arrangement, software development and simulations;  In the software
development environment we have programmers who develop the software which
makes the spacecraft and science work.  The simulations area runs a
computer model of the spacecraft; we run the software we develop against
the simulation as software validation.

Regards,
Jon