Thanks for that analysis Lumenge which makes excellent sense.

Had SV been able to announce full integration I feel he would wish to take the line honours and announice this. He perhaps anticipateed this when signing up to PIC but as it stands Bill Ring has been given the honour to put smiles on BB developers faces and shall be doing a good job promoting POET in the process I'm sure.

What needs to be stamped on, as its the way rumours are given life, is the misleading nature of the phrase Ring 'replaces' Venkatesan.   Already some have taken this as succesion and openly discuss this when, quite clearly, it refers only to BR standing in for SV at the PIC. Anything other than this is a figment of imagination not created by a company issued statement.  The notion is entirely generated by this board and already has created a damaging illusion.so desired by those bent on wilful misinformation.

Talk of succession should be labelled IMO.

Sula