-too true, GP.
-all sounds very encouraging, I think this is the 'real deal' and not another false dawn. I'm pretty sure of it. OIP have never bullshitted the Vialogy situation, witness last years interims which were brutally honest in the failed expectations of vialogy.
-as ever with tech co's, you have to go the long way round. Often companies can emerge from that process much stronger and fitter than if everything had worked like a dream first time around.
-I think that is the situation here and looks like we will find out for sure in 2006.