Replies to post #212689 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[ExPatriate57]

Alea,

You wrote:

"The management of SEDs also looks like a fairly simple proposition, but the price dynamics, the legacy equipment and presumably other factors are expressing themselves in the current rate of growth, which remains gentle."

Get it (The Requirement for an audit trail of FDE compliance) "baked into" standards like HIPAA or PCI-DSS and it will happen quickly. The standards bodies prime motivators.

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alea, legacy,

(as memory serves the membranous wings of bugs as thermostats versus the feathering of highly articulated limbs in birds represent alternate paths convergent upon the same value point - flight).

While the SED gambit seems all of incremental and comparatively tractable, even there legacy persists. In this case the improvements over the legacy and the ability to cooperate with legacy implementations are the points that hopefully bag sales.

It seems to me that legacy is a comparatively small hurdle in SED implementations compared to NAC implementations which by my reckoning require complete conversion. Presumably Wave has jumped on SEDs for this reason, and of course the obvious object oriented vectoral understanding that losing a laptop with liability-laden data presents.

I've wandered into a valley of less optimism lately, and am beginning to subscribe to the notion that molasses will equal failure.

BEWML would/will do wonders for my optimeter.