1) Three programmers were lost from Cambridge the week before last - Haydn Fidler, Andrew Evans and Nathan Johnson. In total 90 people were let go throughout the SONICblue group, as each of the individual holdings were amalgamated into one operating company. The former empeg team are now the Audio Applications Software team, within the SONICblue Engineering department.
2) Nobody from Cambridge has spoken on this subject because it was only raised yesterday (Sunday) and believe it or not we don't always read the BBS at weekends. At least three of us were busy getting extremely wasted on a nice beach on the south coast.
I'll post a full response in a few minutes.
Rob