I'm sure that Bruce was very disappointed when the bank did not select VP but my guess is that the rational has already been explained: new radical product, didn't want to be the first to try and the security chief certainly wasn't going for it because it was not devised by his team. If I had to guess, I'd suspect that these and undoubtedly other reasons are why VP is not yet in commercial use. No one wants to go first with something that they cannot definitively see already working in the real world.
In my career I've been privy to more meetings than I care to think about with vendors clamoring about how great their product is. Many (way too many) moons ago I recall Oracle (a startup at the time, imagine that) working to convince the Navy to use its relational database. My group was totally against it: too new, untried, not invented here, etc. Sound familiar? Here's the real kicker, we offered to set up our database and the application we were working on and set up a matching Oracle database and compare performance. They wouldn't do it. Why? Maybe they thought they would lose the performance race and didn't want to look bad. Despite what I perceived as a failure, the Navy got on board the Oracle train and the rest they say, is history.
It took years and years but today, we know that Oracle is a multi-billion dollar company with a product that still to this day, I think stinks. IMO, they failed at our site and IMO lost the battle at that time yet still won the war. Who is to say that VLDI can't do the same despite past failures or rejections? Oracle kept going despite what were, IMO, failures. You keep pressing the past but I can point out what I perceive to be other vendor failures and yet despite them, they have gone on to be quite successful. And yes, some have never been heard from again.
Gorgal's testing proved, at least to me, that there is some benefit to VP. I don't buy into a bunch of what goes on here, it can be entertaining though, but I do believe that there is a place for VP as a part of the defense of company or government data. Whether Benn can prove and sell it remains another issue but here again, Gorgal's successful testing should go a long way to convince some entity somewhere (referencing his clients here) to take a long hard look at VP.
Some day, I speculate that VP will come into its own and be utilized. My past experience has told me that this would be an arduous and lengthy adventure filled with many disappointments. I've even indicated where I do some current work on this board quite some time ago. It is a well recognized DoD entity. This background has kept me in VLDI (4+ years) despite the length of time this has taken or its perceived failures. This is not my "normal" behavior for penny stocks but for this one, I've made an exception and continue to just sit and wait.
I certainly don't know when something positive will happen. Who does, but at some point in time I doubt that VLDI will be sub-penny and for those who keep this company afloat, they just might get well rewarded for their perseverance. I'll continue to go along for the ride to hero or zero. If hero, wonderful, if zero, I won't be living in a cardboard box.
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