" But when 3-5 people show up in a forum thread to play evangelical chorus for a given technology, that puts my radar up."

That is just plan cocky ignorance, Joel.

When these good people put this together to help you understand what POET has and where POET is going the least you could have done was check it out with a little bit of DD. You know (perhaps i'm giving you too much credit to say that though) due diligence the kind of stuff your readers expect and deserve but obviously don't get from you as you have just proven.