Sometimes evaluations just go so smoothly it is hard to believe. Here’s the picture. The application engineer gets on a plane to go to a company in Europe. He lands on Sunday. Monday he’s raring to go but it turns out that it is a little known local holiday and nobody is working. Not a great start, one day behind already. Tuesday morning he arrives at the company and gets his hand on the design. It is 1.7 million instances and consists of about 30,000 files. It is the most complex design the potential customer has ever done.

The AE calls Paul that evening, “I’ve got a big problem.” Paul’s heart sinks.

The AE continues, “I’m done and my flight back isn’t for days.”

He had got the design through RealTime Designer about 1½ hours after walking through the door. The potential customer engineer’s assement: “This is unbelievable.” They are about to become a real customer (or a RealTime customer).