A fabulous example put forth by Sulasailor, furthered by Snackrat. Legacy indeed, and freedom will be the hallmarks of the next few years for many. For me, with my shares in individual trusts for my grandchildren, its both legacy and freedom. freedom for the next generation to be educated without debts, to start life without a mortgage.

Something in Sulasailor's post struck a chord....(italics/highlighting by me)

......For me the principle indication that the time is near is the financial planning (exercising of warrants) that will facilitate the employment of additional directors and staff. This recruitmen was brought forward by seven months in the last NR. That indicates to me that something has happened to make that a sensible and financially sound decision........

I have been on record before as stating that timelines on our industry are, at best, nebulous. The published time lines of many a technology comapny are there for public information, yes, but also to distract, deter, detour and generally keep any observers,competition, and media entities, off kilter. I can say that we generally run several weeks and months ahead of public schedules.Do delays happen within that secret network of product development ? Absolutely yes, which is another reason we as the general public will never know the real story of development timelines.

So a devout interest in Sulasailor's comments regarding that time forward concept. This then brought me to a realization regarding AM and his PR/Marketing activities and efforts. Let me say, this is a leaps and bounds advantage over "ALL" start ups, junior companies, incubated entites etc, due to one large, NO very large fact.That is with all these other companies they "must" follow the marketing flow hierarchy if they are to succeed in gettting to the right ears of the key people in any organization. Yet, from there its still just the first step of many to getting there individual message to the end decision makers.

On the other hand, Mr. Manocha, he has the ear of not just the decision makers in purchasing and marketing of Fortune 500 tech companies. No he has the front door, walk in access of the CEO, management team, board, you name it, saving weeks and months of endless appointments and presentations, going right to the top echelon. In fact, I will go out on a limb here to say that since he is so well connected, so firmly in the loop, that in most cases a phone call is all it would take to get the interest ball rolling within a target company. The flipside as well, the response from the senior person at that company would have been to "I want to know AS SOON" as your completed". In many cases this initial/secondary may have been done over the summer and now the roster of interested parties on the a "hot list" has enlarged to take a number status. Below, a previously published list of industry experts and senior management that Mr. Manocha may have access to.

http://www.technet.org/technet-appoints-new-executive-council-members-marissa-mayer-of-yahoo-and-safra-catz-of-oracle/

• Cisco, John Chambers, (co-chair, TechNet), Chairman & CEO
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, John Doerr (co-chair, TechNet), Partner
• Bloom Energy, KR Sridhar, Co-Founder & CEO
• ClearStreet, Kim Polese, Chairman
• EMC, Joseph Tucci, Chairman, President & CEO
• EnerNOC, Tim Healy, Chairman & CEO
• F5 Networks, John McAdam, President & CEO
• Genentech, Ian Clark, CEO
• GlobalFoundries, Ajit Manocha, CEO
• Google, Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman
• HP, Henry Gomez, Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer
• Marvell, Weili Dai, Co-Founder
• Microsoft, Brad Smith, General Counsel and Executive Vice President
• NASDAQ OMX Group, Bruce Aust, Executive Vice President
• Stanford University, Joseph Grundfest, W.A. Franke Professor of Law and Business
• VeriSign, James Bidzos, Chairman and CEO

Mr. Manocha no longer sits with this group from 2013, but I bet he still communicates with a few if not most or all of them.

As one of my pet research projects, I have been delving into Mr. Manocha's EC appearance with Google reps. Results to come at a later date. Through that project I have also been seeking Mr. Manocha's contact list as a way, to viewing the top echelon people he "could" have access to. I have been pouring over SEC documents, internet searches and using some of the information our POET group has assembled. It indicates and proves out as mentioned above, we may be ahead of the public schedule by some months. Which would/could mean we see substantial developments and that 2015 will be the year of Powered by POET.

The moral of the story.....an iceberg moves slowly and silently through the surface of the water, underwater the turbulence is deafening......