No wonder it's not ready for release: it's confused a bitter apple with a bitter pill. Or are the prospects Grimm?

who knew :) They do make good hardware though, shame about the software, oh there is ZFS and zones, hand me a popper and a sparkler.

Corporates sap the life out of everything, repeat after me, only work for a corporate when they are willing to pay a huge amount of money for your time, it is only then that you can really enjoy working with a corporate. At all other times they are to be avoided like the proverbial plague.

The history of the IT industry is littered with cases of successful small European companies who sold out to large American ones, and then many of the best people left. If you'd held a senior position (managerial or technical) in a business you'd helped to grow from almost nothing, would you want to become a small fish in a very big pond?

Maybe there should be better ways to reward people like this, without them having to sell their shareholding to anybody they can find with a large enough wallet, and walk away from what they've achieved.