The Sound of Hard Packed Seaborne Ice Grating Against the Ship's Hull

This morning, the computer trade press ran a story about a large middleware company's plans to release a product that does pretty much what my employer was aspiring to do.

What makes this all the more painful is that my employer's leadership was telling us late last year that they were in talks with said company for a future sale.

I kicked a link to the news story to my coworker, and he seemed to agree that this bodes ill for the future of the company.