I hate to say it Baba but I think you missed my point? If the tech is as good as they say it is and the companies who have received the prototypes recognize that it provides a critical answer for making optical connections cheap, fast and reliably then this will be recognized as a very big answer to  low cost optical  integration. I think there would be some serious thoughts towards ownership. I am sure you have seen examples of this. To make comparisons to 5 years ago well it would be hard to sell something that has not been developed yet.

Suresh in the past has commented on when a company would  want to initiate a takeover bid for the GaAs platform when he first came aboard and his comments were that it would not happen unless that technology represented a threat to  the company. And that threat would only be realised when products are in the market and accepted as a major improvement which becomes the standard and displaces existing technologies.

As we all know the POET GaAs platform never even made it to first base as far as commercial viability. But the same cannot be said about the optical interposer platform where actual products are being built and paid for by leading global companies.