Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator instructions).
And our first question comes from Michael Weinstein with the JP Morgan. Please go ahead.
Michael Weinstein
Good afternoon gents. How are you doing?
Frederic Moll
Hi Mike.
Mike Weinstein
Let me pick up where you left off there. At this point, we will talk a little about the commentary on 2008, I think (inaudible) will be encouraged by the expectations that you guys laid out there was pretty much in line with our own. Could you just comment on how you used to do that ramping? How your manufacturing capability impacts that in the first half of the year or not, and then in addition to the comments you made on system placements, how shall we think about the experience curve that maybe which you can identify one at this point for someone who buys the Sensei system, gets trained on the system and did set up at running. What is the ramp you are saying at this point for someone who is doing on the system now for six months or longer?
Frederic Moll
Yeah. I think Mike what I will do is I will handle the kind of the first of part of that and I will turn it over to Gary to kind of talk about the customer cycle part of it.
Mike Weinstein
Yep.
Frederic Moll
And I think we are still in the early stage of our commercial launch and we have really been active here. This is our, basically our second full quarter of activity and we have been able to move from four units in the second quarter to 5 and the third and six units in our fourth quarter, and here, we are, I think, we are going to continue, we would continue to see, expect to see, kind of stairstep approach, here going into ’08 and as far as the natural consequence of the kind of a stairstep, you are going to see obviously more units in the back half of the year than the front half.
Gary Restani
Right. And Mike if I can add I think you have mentioned manufacturing, because that still a factor. You are going to see that become less of a factor as the year goes on obviously and in the first two quarters will be a small element of it but as you heard me say that at the end of the first half, we officially announced that our measured release will be formally concluded. What that means is that we will be more demand-driven in the latter half of the year which falls exactly in line to Steve’s point of how the business ramps at this early stage. Your other question I believe related to the customer I guess...
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