I still believe they hired all of these people for a reason so I'm cautiously optimistic.

I'm glad you still believe that 'opportunity', because if you didn't, i'd be recommending you for the remake of 'one flew over the cuckoos nest'.

Could you ever imagine a company hiring people to sit and twiddle their thumbs? Or worse still. Would you, as an intelligent scientist of electronics and/or photonics, take a job that resulted in you doing nothing? They'd be leaving in their droves.

There is no doubt in my mind they are ramping things up at DL and we'll soon see the results of that. Will it be enough to satisfy the market, that POET can therefore be realised, without another clubbing from the bankers is the question?