There may be upwards of 30, and maybe as many as 60 firms hanging hats on the massively-parallel market in the broadest sense of the term, but insiders point out that while many are pinning hopes on sales of commercial massively parallel systems, the technical parallel market, as an indicator, has yet to show much sign of significant growth. One argument says commercial massively parallel needs support from users of sophisticated decision systems, a requirement that just isn’t happening yet.