the software industry consists of over 30.000 public and privately held companies Many of these companies are fast growth companies that will continue to provide a steady stream of emerging prospects for soFTRAx for the foreseeable future. Many software companies are start-ups that not captured in informational surveys and industry data. This is true for the data in the tables below. Table 1 is designed to the total market for packaged financial and operations software in th industry within North America. Table 2 identifies the geographic concentrations of software companies