""Pretty much our entire business model is hinged on other people using our technology," said Dan'l Lewin, the Vole's VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development." 

Hmmm? Dan'l, XXXXPerts using your technology would much rather you splash some flash cash to Programmers Enabling HyperRadioProActive Drive/Energising Intellectual Property.

As the hooker said to the vicar, it is not what you've got, it's how you use it.

I suppose the problem then would be that the Drive Programmers would control the Operating System Kernel. 

And why would that not be a Good thing if they were Great at IT? 

A question/proposal/scenario/vista resting with M$ Marsman, even as we chat/twitter. .... http://blogs.msdn.com/jennifer/archive/2008/10/28/what-is-windows-azure.aspx#comments

And as you can see, there is no one saying yes or no...... which is all that the world and the markets want to hear. Although an inelegant silence is no better than a no.