steh, i think the c.e.o was in a damned if you do, damned if you don't position on that register article. it would seem from reading the article that they were going to do this story, and if he did not grant them the time, they probably would have cut the company up even worse than they did. i think he did the smart thing, he gave his side of the story, and got the register at least to admit that scmi has a far better product than mvsn.