S.P. - in all due respect, while I admire your optimism, unless you have "inside information" which would, of course, be illegal to disseminate - your list of names of nice juicy companies as "potential" bed partners of POET carry no more impact now than they did when they were first published by POET! "Pie in the sky" I believe it's called!

And as to your assertion that the reason for no POET booth at CIOE is because it would COST TOO MUCH is ludicrous.  They are going to have a crew in town for the demos anyway, and the Exhibition is a ONCE ANNUAL chance to have one-on-one interactions with perhaps 5 or 10,000 engineers, scientists, students in the Photonics and related businesses!  To me, this is a HUGE opportunity missed!

If you're correct, then maybe by this time next year, we can go to CIOE and celebrate as the "leader" that EVERYBODY in the photonics industry wants a piece of!  I hope so...it's been a LONG wait...

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